Re: [PATCH] org-export: Remove zero-width space escapes during export

[András Simonyi]

Dear All,

this might be a very stupid question as I'm not familiar with the
internals of the Org export engine, but couldn't this change lead to
problems with the Org-to-Org export of documents containing these
"semantic separators"?

thanks and best wishes,
András

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 16:52, Timothy <orgmode@tec.tecosaur.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ihor,
>
> > I am attaching a tentative patch that will make Org export remove
> > zero-width spaces when those spaces actually separate the object
> > boundaries.
> >
> > Any objections?
>
> IMO this is an immanently sensible idea. I added an export filter like this to
> my config basically as soon as I found out about zero-width spaces.
>
> One minor quibble, I find the name mildly misleading. When you say “escaped” I
> think of escaped characters, which isn’t really connected to what the zero 
> width
> does. I’d personally be inclined to call the zero width space an “invisible
> semantic separator”.
>
> > +(defun org-export–remove-escaped (data info)
> > +  “Remove escape symbols from plain-text in DATA.
> > +DATA is a parse tree or a secondary string.  INFO is a plist
> > +containing export options.  It is modified by side effect and
> > +returned by the function.”
>
> How about:
>
> ┌────
> │ (defun org-export--remove-semantic-separators (data info)
> │   "Remove Org-specific semantic separators from plain-text in DATA.
> │ DATA is a parse tree or a secondary string.  INFO is a plist
> │ containing export options.  It is modified by side effect and
> │ returned by the function."
> └────
>
> All the best,
> Timothy