Hello, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
> When Org-mode is used as a document preparation language inline comments > are very useful. The use case being notes on the surrounding material > which are not to be published. Both HTML and LaTeX support comments and > at least in LaTeX they are extensively used (in my experience) and can > be very helpful. Again, Org is neither LaTeX nor HTML. > Stripping lines starting with "^ *#[^+]" is a trivial pre-processing > step, and would support the traditional Org-mode comments which (as I > recall) could previously appear mid paragraph without causing > problems. > The attached patch worked on some small example files for me. As I explained in a previous post, it's only a kludge hiding the real problem: comments cannot appear anywhere, even if we don't take export into account. Actually, handling comments during export is the easiest part of the problem. > From ce4c30ebe56d4cd66810bca48824d8841e7b130d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:44:59 -0600 > Subject: [PATCH] support inline comments w/o breaking paragraphs > > * lisp/org-element.el (org-element-parse-buffer): Strip inline comments > as a pre-processing step before exporting. The parser is unrelated to the export process, so export pre-processing shouldn't happen in org-element.el. Also, parsing a buffer mustn't modify it in the process. Even if you move it to ox.el, this is not an acceptable solution. Think about the following example - item 1 # with a comment - item 2 If you simply delete matching lines, you break the list. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou