Re: 'false' list item

[Tim Cross]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> Juan Manuel Macías writes:
>
>> If a line in a paragraph starts with a digit (or letter) + period +
>> space, Org misinterprets that as a list item. I almost always notice
>> this only when I export my document, which is a nuisance.
>>
>> I wonder if there is any standard solution to that, or if I'm missing
>> something... All that occurred to me is this "preventive" solution,
>> using `highlight-regexp':
>
> It seems that your approach would do a good job of helping you catch
> cases that you don't want to be treated as lists.  I'm not aware of any
> related functionality in Org, so I don't think you're missing something
> there.
>
> Once you know that there is a particular spot that you want to prevent
> from being interpreted as a list, you could add a zero-width space in
> front of it:
>
>     (info "(org)Escape Character")
>
> I'm not sure if that's the sort of solution you're asking for, though.

If a line starts with a number, period and space, but that line is
within a paragraph (i.e. no blank line above), then I don't think it
should be interpreted as an enumerated list item. If this is what the OP
is referring to, I would argue it is a bug. If it is a 'paragraph'
starting with a number, period and space, then being interpreted as a
list item would be 'normal'.

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Tim Cross