Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes: > Marco Wahl <marcowahls...@gmail.com> writes: > >> One could even think about letting fade out the "#+"-file-wide >> property definition syntax or at least think about a good place within >> a file or a subtree for those definitions. (There is at least >> Sebastian Miele who wants to keep that syntax as he stated in another >> thread AFAIR.) > > You do realize, don't you, how much software and how many documents such > a change would break? One of the primary reasons Org users use Org is > that its file format is very long-lived and flexible. There are even > academic papers written in Org, exported to LaTeX, and a change such as > that would break them, creating needless work for their authors or other > interested parties to fix them up in order to still be exportable.
Please let's forget about fading out the "#+"-file-wide property for now. I understand that the file-wide properties in their current meaning need to stay a good while, maybe even as long as Org lives. Back to the issue of the document level property drawer: could it be we talk about literally nothing when talking about the "breaking"? What is an example which shows how the introduction of a document level property drawer breaks something in the Org universe? (I think there is none.) Ciao, -- Marco
