Lists, headlines, inline tasks, etc. (Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling)

2010-11-28 Thread Samuel Wales
Philosophically, or better, fundamentally, what are the differences between headlines and lists? Haven't thought about list syntax deeply, but for one, you can have text before a list and then after it. For another, headlines allow significant metadata. Also, we have mechanisms, including the ag

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-28 Thread Karl Maihofer
Eric S Fraga schrieb: Well, my immediate reaction was to jump in and say that this (pt 4) is exactly when I most need inline tasks! My typical use case is taking minutes at a meeting and assigning actions to individuals: inline tasks are perfect for this. However, on reflection, obviously a s

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
Carsten Dominik writes: > On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > >> Hello, >> >>> Karl Maihofer writes: >> >>> Thanks for that. Did you work on the demote/promote problem, too? >> >> No, nothing related to lists actually. But I added a way to configure >> export of inline tasks

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-28 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: Hello, Karl Maihofer writes: Thanks for that. Did you work on the demote/promote problem, too? No, nothing related to lists actually. But I added a way to configure export of inline tasks. As pointed out above in my special case inlin

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-28 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
> Karl Maihofer writes: > Until we have an opinion about inline tasks are there any arguments > agains drawers for list items? I don't think so. It just needs to be implemented. But it isn't a straightforward task. In fact, that means you can have a list A containing a drawer, which can also

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-28 Thread Karl Maihofer
Nicolas Goaziou schrieb: With a drawer, you mean something like the following? , | - Item 1 | - Item 1a | :COMMENT: | This is a comment. | :END: | - Item 1b | - Item 2 | - Item 3 ` Yes. It would be great to have drawers in lists. This is certaily a much cleaner stru

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-27 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, > Karl Maihofer writes: > Thanks for that. Did you work on the demote/promote problem, too? No, nothing related to lists actually. But I added a way to configure export of inline tasks. > As pointed out above in my special case inline tasks would be a > great thing to have in lists.

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-27 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi Nicolas! Thanks for your answer! Nicolas Goaziou schrieb: Wouldn't drawers be more appropriate here than inline tasks? Not that it would work with a drawer either, but the examples given seem to focus more on content than on a task title. In fact I have both, text comments and tasks that

Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, > Karl Maihofer writes: > These documents must be updated and will be exported to HTML > regularly. Some documents have 500+ pages and many many of these > "inline task" notes. Wouldn't drawers be more appropriate here than inline tasks? Not that it would work with a drawer either, bu

[Orgmode] Lists handling

2010-11-26 Thread Karl Maihofer
In an older thread(*) Sébastien, Carsten and Nicolas discussed the new kind of lists handling that was introduced with Org version 7.02. (*) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/32808 , | Lists handling | === | | Due to changes made to lists, it is no longer possible to