Re: [Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-06 Thread Jan Böcker
On 06.01.2010 10:05, Carsten Dominik wrote: Would you like to work on a patch that allows interpreting page numbers for external applications? I'll definitely take a stab at it and see how far I get while learning more about elisp along the way. I will post to the mailing list if I make

Re: [Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-06 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Jan Böcker wrote: On 06.01.2010 10:05, Carsten Dominik wrote: Would you like to work on a patch that allows interpreting page numbers for external applications? I'll definitely take a stab at it and see how far I get while learning more about elisp along the

Re: [Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-06 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, during following this thread I noticed one problem with the page and line- number concept - file:~/some-file.txt::23some-file.txt, line 23 A txt-file may have no clear page boarders. Thus only a line number might make sens - file:~/document.pdf:4 document.pdf, page 4 A

Re: [Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-05 Thread Jan Böcker
I am not sure if it makes sense to handle more that a page number, really. I have thought about this again and concluded that the approach in my first post is, indeed, over-engineered. I also believe the approach proposed in this post to be flexible enough to handle some extensions. On

Re: [Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Wales
If you need the syntax to be more general, take a look at extensible syntax on this list. -- Q: How many CDC scientists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: You only think it's dark. [CDC has denied ME/CFS for 25 years] =

[Orgmode] RFC: Syntax for page numbers in file: links?

2010-01-02 Thread Jan Böcker
Hello List, During the discussion in the protocol for PDFs? thread, I realized that docview: links are an almost exact copy of file: links, the only single difference being that file: takes a line number and docview: links take a page number. Up until now, (docview:) links to PDF files have been