Subject: bug#18870: \emsp and alignment in org clock report

From: Subhan Michael Tindall <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:48:40 +0000

Agendas can & do get exported.  Current agenda buffer can be exported using org-agenda-write to several formats. Custom agendas can be assigned file name(s) and automatically export to one or more file types. 

See: http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting-Agenda-Views.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+subhant=[email-masked]
> [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+subhant=[email-masked]] On
> Behalf Of Leo Ufimtsev
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:10 PM
> To: Nicolas Goaziou
> Cc: Ben Finney; [email-masked]
> Subject: [O] bug#18870: bug#18870: \emsp and alignment in org clock report
> 
> I can't speak for the technical details,
> 
> but I get the sense that \emsp isn't the right thing to be displayed on an
> *agenda clock report* because agenda clock reports don't get exported
> (afaik).
> 
> Even \__ is more preffered than an \emsp, as \emsp is not 'easy to read' per
> se.
> 
> Since there are clearly difference in opinions, maybe a solution is to have a
> variable like 'org-clockreport-indentation-character' which defaults to \emsp
> for correct export, but could be changed to spaces or '\__' by the user. This
> would give people the choice between better export or better text-buffer
> display.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Leo Ufimtsev | Intern Software Engineer @ Eclipse Team
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Goaziou" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Ben Finney" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:07:03 PM
> Subject: [O] bug#18870: \emsp and alignment in org clock report
> 
> Ben Finney <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > The behaviour described – displaying “\emsp” instead of space
> > characters – is a regression. That's what is being reported in this
> > bug.
> 
> There wasn't space characters in the first place, but "\___" constructs.
> See commit bacfe5b4f7244eaf151f4e26a1d94dd8f66c1d19.
> 
> Also, the bug is about table alignment when `org-pretty-entities' is used.
> 
> >> Having some space character is not desirable as it would just move
> >> the problem the other way around (i.e., indentation would not appear
> >> during export)
> >
> > So the U+2003 EM SPACE character should be translated *during export*,
> > and not be literally in the displayed text.
> 
> No, because it means this character should be treated specially by Org (e.g.,
> LaTeX just ignores it so it needs to be turned into a space there).
> 
> This is not a good idea, especially considering it is an invisible character.
> 
> > IS the above suggestion an acceptable solution?
> 
> No, it isn't.
> 
> An acceptable solution would be a character or a string that looks decent
> both in the buffer and in an exported document, without further processing.
> 
> >> Note that this is not LaTeX-specific markup. This is called an
> >> entity, and is correctly exported in various back-ends.
> >
> > But not for display, which is the bug to be fixed here.
> 
> Actually, it works more or less correctly for display on GUI with a non-nil `org-
> pretty-entities', or calling `org-toggle-pretty-entities'.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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