[Orgmode] Re: Orgmode[PATCH 4/4] Add handling of blockquote and output formats that must be flowed.

[Robert Goldman]

On 4/29/10 Apr 29 -8:54 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:39:59 -0500, "Robert P. Goldman" <address@hidden> 
>>>>>> said:
> 
> RPG> Added a handler for blockquotes.
> 
> That looks great.  Thanks!
> 
> RPG> Also added :body-newline-paragraph to the org-set-generic-type.
> 
> I'm fine with that too, but in the end couldn't you just put a "\n" in
> the format strings?  I thought about what to do about newlines when I
> wrote the code base and in the end I decided that with the existing
> methods you could always add "\n"s everywhere you needed them which
> provided the maximum flexibility.  The downside is that reading "\n"s
> everywhere isn't exactly pretty on the specification side :-/

No, unfortunately, I couldn't make this work for the tikiwiki export.
As far as I can tell, if you give the tikiwiki a block of text with
newlines in it, the tikiwiki will "decide" that you wanted to set the
linebreaks yourself, and will format the block as <pre>, making it
impossible for a browser to reflow the text.  This is not what I wanted.
 I want paragraphs in my org document to look like paragraphs when exported.

So what I wanted here was newlines /only/ where the paragraphs break.

Honestly, I don't understand how this is done in the wiki engine --- it
seems hard to specify this as an unambiguous translation and get the
edge cases (like single-line paragraphs) right.  However, my appetite
for reading PHP code is /extremely/ limited, so I have been learning the
format rules by experimentation.

Hope that explains things,

Best,


r