On 2015-10-25, at 14:08, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'd like to see some features moving forward, and some important issues > fixed, hopefully, in the next months. I'm sharing them here so that > anyone interested can help. > > > * Features > > ** Citations > > Development apparently stopped for some reason. We have a citation > syntax for Org in wip-cite and some work done in wip-cite-awe and > probably elsewhere. > > I think we could at least provide features defined in Org Ref using the > new syntax (minus hydra/helm related functions). > > We don't need a silver bullet. Just something with a non-empty user > base, and extensible. In any case, the work done so far shouldn't be > wasted. Interesting. I don't use Org for writing scientific articles, but many people do, and this might be really helpful. > ** Annotations > > It would be nice to allow annotating text in Org. I already made > a proposal for that feature a few months ago, without much success. > Anyway, I'd like to implement it, in a simplified form. For the record, > the idea is to use some markup for beginning and end of an annotation, > e.g., > > [@:id].....[@] > > and store text within a dedicated section, > > * Annotations > > [@:id] ... > > Like footnotes, you could easily browse remotely annotations at point. > However, they would be, at least at the beginning, completely ignored > during export. That sounds interesting, though I don't really see much difference between this and plain simple comments. > ** Backslash escaping > > Allowing to escape some symbols in plain text (e.g., emphasis markers, > square brackets...) would remove a limitation in verbatim/code objects. > As a small benefit, it would also permit to implement mid-word markup: > b*o*ld. > > There are some gotchas, however. And this one is probably the most interesting to me. If I can help (testing, suggestions, maybe coding - I'm in the process of transferring copyright for my Emacs/Org-mode/AUCTeX contributions to the FSF), please let me know. > Here we are. I hope finding enough spare time (it also depends on the > quantity of bugs to fix...) to investigate most, if not all of these > issues. Of course, feedback is welcome. > > Regards, Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University