Re: Re: Feature request (org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists)

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Possible solutions:
>>
>> 1. Allow #+begin_example and friends to be indented and remove the  
>> same
>>   amount of whitespace from all example lines as the #+begin line  
>> has.
>>   This is possible, but would require a lot of work in the LaTeX
>> exporter.
>>   It would also cause a lot of problems with the edit-source-code
>> stuff
>>   with "C-c '", because we could then no longer use indentation
>>   functionality while editing the examples.

Option (1) will be implemented in 6.28, option (2), which was  
implemented
temporarily is deprecated or may be removed.

- Carsten

>>
>> 2. Adapt the LaTeX exporter to work like the HTML exporter, ignoring
>>   indentation of tables and example.  The, introduce a special list
>>   item like "- ___" to explicitly terminate a list if this should be
>> necessary.
>>
>> I welcome comments on this issue.
>
> Thanks for looking into this problem!  Personally I would prefer  
> option
> 1) if it does not require too much work.  Supporting indented tables  
> and
> #+begin_example etc. in Org-mode plain lists not only makes list
> structure look cleaner, but also fits well in Org-mode's powerful
> structure editing functionality (org-do-promote/demote already  
> supports
> lot of automatic indentation today, including tables and ": ..."
> example lines.).
>
> Option 2) is a very good compromise, because it is cheap to implement,
> and, for *most* of the times, people do not need to use "- ___" in  
> their
> lists.
>
> The only problem with option 2) is that, to terminate an ordered list
> that has N items, do we have to use something like "(N+1). ___"?   
> Number
> N+1 here makes the list look a little bad.  Also, "+ ___" and "* ___"
> may be required for list item starting with `+' or `*'.
>
> Baoqiu
>
>
>
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