[O] Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions;
Dear org-mode developers,
I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description of
a link.
That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to
have the source
a href=http://example.org;foo [bar]/a
and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such as
#5b; for [, for two reasons:
1. It is painful.
2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format
than HTML.
I noticed this post on escaping in org links
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I
didn't understand it.
I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the link
component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs,
but also in the description component, but in the description it
doesn't work.
Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a
generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow
for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /.
So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also one
actual bug:
When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert
square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to {...},
which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape syntax, they
should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax.
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Christoph
--
Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
[O] Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions;
Dear org-mode developers,
I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description of
a link.
That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to
have the source
a href=http://example.org;foo [bar]/a
and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such as
#5b; for [, for two reasons:
1. It is painful.
2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format
than HTML.
I noticed this post on escaping in org links
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I
didn't understand it.
I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the link
component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs,
but also in the description component, but in the description it
doesn't work.
Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a
generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow
for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /.
So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also one
actual bug:
When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert
square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to {...},
which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape syntax, they
should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax.
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Christoph
--
Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
Re: [O] Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions;
Hi,
One way to solve it would be with org entities. I don't think they
exist for square brackets, but you could make a user-defined one.
You could put something like this in your .emacs (I think plain
bracket characters should work in every export format, so I haven't
bothered to look up HTML entities or LaTeX commands):
(setq org-entities-user
'((lbr [ nil [ [ [ [) ; left square bracket
(rbr ] nil ] ] ] ]))) ; right square bracket
Then try the following -- ugly as sin, and as painful as XML entities,
but it gives the output you want in whatever format:
Here is a [[http://foobar.org][foo \lbr{}bar\rbr{}]]
The curly bracket replacement (which I think is very reasonable,
really) is currently hardcoded in org-make-link-string. If it were
made customizable, that would take the pain (but not the ugliness) out
of making links like the above.
A backslash escape would have been nice to have, but \[...\] is
already interpreted as a math environment.
Yours,
Christian
On 1/31/12 5:19 PM, Christoph LANGE wrote:
Dear org-mode developers,
I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description
of a link.
That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to
have the source
a href=http://example.org;foo [bar]/a
and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such
as #5b; for [, for two reasons:
1. It is painful.
2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format
than HTML.
I noticed this post on escaping in org links
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I
didn't understand it.
I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the link
component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs,
but also in the description component, but in the description it
doesn't work.
Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a
generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow
for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /.
So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also
one actual bug:
When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert
square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to
{...}, which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape
syntax, they should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax.
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Christoph
