Re: [O] [html] non-lists showing up as lists

[Nick Dokos]

Alan L Tyree <address@hidden> writes:

> Indeed, an exercise which I have already done in the form of a lisp
> function to catch the nasty little numbers at the beginning of lines.
>
> For the earlier exporter, I used this to insert non-printing spaces,
> export, then remove non-printing space. Far from elegant :-).
>

Wouldn't it be better to fix the file once and for all? After all, if
you do that and then paste it into the org file, then refilling is
*never* going to create the problem (assuming that there is no bug in
the filling code of course: if there is, then it has to get fixed.)

I may have misunderstood but I took the question to be the following: if
I get an arbitrary file from somewhere, and I want to make an org
document out of it, can I paste it in? The answer is "yes, but...":
there might be problems. Checking the file with a script shows the
problems, then you go in and fix them (by hand if necessary: four or
five instances of the problem in 60+ pages seems insignificant, assuming
that you *know* that the problem is there.)

> I still like the suggestion that there should be an option so that
> lists cannot begin at the beginning of a line. Like Samuel earlier in
> this thread, I always indent lists.
>

Who's to guarantee that the file you are pasting in does not have
indented dashes or numbers at the beginning of some lines? Wouldn't
that cause the same problem?

-- 
Nick