Re: [Orgmode] Re: [Babel] Need for an extra literal block construct

[Christian Moe]

Hi,

Perhaps I misunderstood what you're after. As I now understand it, you 
want line breaks preserved and you don't want anything interpreted, 
you want verbatim text. Why doesn't EXAMPLE meet your needs?

Yours,
Christian

On 11/19/10 9:12 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Christian Moe wrote:
> > > Along this (still open -- at least, I hope so) discussion, I have a request
> > > for a new literal block.
> > >
> > > Currently, when looking at http://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-examples.html, we
> > > see we only have two "environments" that keep line breaks as they are in the
> > > Org buffer, that is SRC and EXAMPLE, both mapped in HTML to PRE.
> >
> > There's VERSE, too.
>
> #+TITLE:     Is VERSE a real PRE environment?
> #+DATE:      2010-11-19
> #+LANGUAGE:  en_US
>
> If VERSE was really handled "verbatim" (for lists, etc.), then, yes,
> definitively, I don't need a new "environment" for emails. Was forgetting
> about that one, thanks for the reminder!
>
> Though, if the following is not a bug, but a deliberative choice, then no,
> it's not what I'm looking for...
>
> * Source block
>
> ** Source
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (update this-var)
> (echo "OK")
> #+end_src
>
> ** Results
>
> #+begin_example
> <pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(update this-var)
> (echo<span class="org-string">"OK"</span>)
> </pre>
> #+end_example
>
> * Example
>
> ** Source
>
> #+begin_example
> > > Does it work?
> >
> > Yes, if you:
> > - update =this-var=
> > - restart
>
> OK. Confirmed, but you need to:
> 1. delete the =cache=.
> 2. redo it.
>
> Thanks to:
> - you
> - me
> #+end_example
>
> ** Results
>
> #+begin_example
> <pre class="example">&gt;&gt; Does it work?
> &gt;
> &gt; Yes, if you:
> &gt; - update =this-var=
> &gt; - restart
>
> OK. Confirmed, but you need to:
> 1. delete the =cache=.
> 2. redo it.
>
> Thanks to:
> - you
> - me
> </pre>
> #+end_example
>
> * Verse
>
> ** Source
>
> #+begin_verse
> > > Does it work?
> >
> > Yes, if you:
> > - update =this-var=
> > - restart
>
> OK. Confirmed, but you need to:
> 1. delete the =cache=.
> 2. redo it.
>
> Thanks to:
> - you
> - me
> #+end_verse
>
> ** Results
>
> #+begin_example
> <p class="verse">
> &gt;&gt; Does it work?<br/>
> &gt;<br/>
> &gt; Yes, if you:<br/>
>
> &gt; - update<code>this-var</code><br/>
> &gt; - restart<br/>
> <br/>
> OK. Confirmed, but you need to:<br/>
> </p><ol>
> <li>
> delete the<code>cache</code>.<br/>
> </li>
>
> <li>
> redo it.<br/>
> <br/>
> Thanks to:<br/>
> </li>
> <li>
> you<br/>
> </li>
> <li>
> me<br/>
> </p>
> #+end_example
>
> ** Right thing or wrong thing?
>
> The verse "mail" is badly translated into HTML:
>
> 1. lists are not copied "verbatim" in the PRE
> 2. they're even wrong: mix of OL and UL, because there is no ending /OL...
>
> While the second is clearly a bug, what about the first point?
>
> Best regards,
>    Seb