Re: Org Syntax Specification

[Tom Gillespie]

Hi Timothy,
    I have attached a patch with some modifications and a bunch of
comments (as footnotes). More replies in line. Thank you for all your
work on this!
Tom

> Marking this as depreciated would have no effect on Org’s current behaviour, 
> but we could:
>
> Mark as depreciated now-ish
> Add a utility to convert from TeX-style to LaTeX-style
> Add org lint/fortification warnings
> A while later (half a decade? more?) actually remove support

In favor of this. There are good alternatives for this now.

> The other component of the syntax which feels particularly awkward to me is 
> source block switches. They seem a bit odd, and since arguments exist, 
> completely redundant.

Extremely in favor of removing switches. There are so many better ways
to do this now that aren't like some eldritch unix horror crawling up
out of the abyss and into the eBNF :)

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