Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Dear Nicolas, On 2016-04-07 20:57, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > ":end:" is also valid. Syntax is case-insensitive, unless specified in > the document. Thank you for this clarification. All the best, Christian -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Hello, Christian Wittern writes: > Great, thanks. Yes, this answers a few other questions as well. For > example, it seems that a drawer always has to end with :END: in capital > letters, using :end: is not possible (I usually prefer the non-shouting > variant if

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Hi, On 2016-04-07 18:05, Christian Moe wrote: > The syntax document is at http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html. > It defines drawers as a "greater element", and says that greater > elements may contain other greater elements. Exporting a sample block > wrapped in a drawer works fine with

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Christian Wittern writes: >> On the third hand, have you considered wrapping a block in a drawer? > No, I had not considered this. Let me play around with that idea for a > while. Is this syntactically allowed? I remember there was a document > discussed a while ago that

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Hi, The syntax document is at http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html. It defines drawers as a "greater element", and says that greater elements may contain other greater elements. Exporting a sample block wrapped in a drawer works fine with the d:t option. Other complications may arise,

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Dear Christian, Thank you for your feedback. On 2016-04-05 16:54, Christian Moe wrote: > On the third hand, have you considered wrapping a block in a drawer? No, I had not considered this. Let me play around with that idea for a while. Is this syntactically allowed? I remember there was a

Re: [O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Hi, Mandoku looks very nice -- an inspiration. I don't really know enough about what your users do or how you want to process the blocks to venture an opinion. On the one hand, for the sake of simplicity and continuity for your users (to say nothing of aesthetics), I'd say keep the drawer

[O] seeking advice on use of drawers vs blocks

Dear Orgmoders, Today I would like to poll the collective wisdom of the Orgmode user community about a design question I have. Since discovering org-mode more than 9.5 years ago (yeah! ), it has transformed my life almost as much, maybe even more than Emacs itself. Among other things, for work I