Ethan Ligon <ligon <at> are.berkeley.edu> writes: > > I've just stumbled across what I regard as a bug in the html export of > description list items. > > The problem has to do with whether the specification of a description > list includes a trailing space or not; i.e., whether "- Item ::" is > treated the same way as "- Item :: ". LaTeX export treats these as > identical. Html export gets confused about what the description list > item is, and winds up generating a "???" for the description. >
Having done the work to describe the problem, it wasn't hard to find a solution. In this case that's a one character change to a regexp in org-html.el. Here's the patch: diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el index d19d88b..005a0f7 100644 --- a/lisp/org-html.el +++ b/lisp/org-html.el @@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ the alist of previous items." (concat "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+[ \t]*\\)" "\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?\\([0-9]+\\|[A-Za-z]\\)\\]\\)?" "\\(?:\\(\\[[ X-]\\]\\)[ \t]+\\)?" - "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]+\\)?" + "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]*\\)?" "\\(.*\\)") line) (let* ((checkbox (match-string 3 line)) (desc-tag (or (match-string 4 line) "???"))