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Re: [O] Feature request: lists with letters


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: [O] Feature request: lists with letters
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:33:38 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Titus von der Malsburg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Correct me if I’m wrong but there are a lot of things in Org that are
>> just about typesetting: *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =verbatim= and
>> ~code~, +strike-through+.  Would you remove these things as well?
>
> I could argue that emphasis is not just about typesetting. It conveys
> a meaning. How emphasis is rendered _is_ typesetting, however. For
> example, "latex" and "beamer" export back-ends render bold text
> differently.

It's similar to how HTML went from <i> and <b> to <emph> and <strong>.
The former were presentation directives. The latter are semantic
directives. They're practically the same, for reasons of backwards
compatibility, and conceptual continuity. Org's emphasis markers are
similar -- they *look* like presentation directives, but at this point
they're actually used as semantic directives.

Probably not helpful,
Eric




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