current support for latex fragments was inline only, i.e. lines containing block
elements (e.g. a line starting with `* `, i.e. a headline) will not be parsed
as part of the latex fragment but the respective block element. Parsing latex
blocks at the block level should fix that. Note that in any case we don't do
any processing and just emit the raw latex (leaving the rendering to e.g. js).
org mode supports [1] setting the value attribute [2] of ordered list items to
change the numbering for the current and following items. Let's do the same. As
the attribute has no meaning for other types of lists [2] we'll just not
support it for those cases [3].
[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-Lists.html#Plain-Lists
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/li#attributes
[3]
Org mode seems to instead set the id attribute for e.g. unordered lists
starting with `[@\d+]\s` - but I don't really see the value in that and will
skip that for now.
To support code block directives like :exports none we need context - i.e. we
need to have the block and it's results at once and can't just render them
independently.
inside src example blocks lines starting with `\s*,` are escaped - i.e. org
mode will not try to parse them as e.g. a headline. We don't want to render the
escape commata to html so let's take them out - and put them back in before
rendering to org. Doing it this way allows us to render them correctly even
when the input did not include them.
see https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html#Literal-Examples
We want original whitespace to be rendered in some cases (e.g. verse
blocks). This requires information about the original whitespace to be
preserved during paragraph parsing. As html ignores (collapses) whitespace by
default we don't have to adapt the html writer and can just selectively enable
rendering of the preseverved whitespace wherever we want it using
css (white-space: pre).
To differentiate meaningful whitespace from document structure based
indentation (i.e. list item base indentation) we need to introduce
document.baseLvl. A paragraph by itself does not have enough information to
differentiate both kinds of whitespace and needs this information as context
[0].
As we're already touching list indentation i went along and improved (fixed?)
descriptive list item indentation rendering in the org writer (it should match
emacs tab behavior - i.e. indent subsequent lines up to the `:: `).
[0] e.g. list items can contain blank lines - a paragraph starting with a blank
line would not know that it is part of a list item / has a base indentation -
the blank line would suggest a baseLvl of 0.
WriteNodesAsString is simple enough to implement but exposing it is helpful in
the implementation of extending writers and we don't aim to keep writer a small
interface so let's expose it.
Extension of the org & html writers is made possible by creating circular
references between the extending and extended writer - that way the extending
writer can forward all methods it doesn't implement to the extended writer and the
extended writer can use the extending writer as the root for method calls to
make sure methods overridden in the extending writer are used even for nested
method calls.
This circular reference leads to problems when cloning writers - cloning the
extended writer merely copies the pointer to the extending writer - i.e. the
extending writer does not get cloned with an updated reference to the extended
writer. Thus method calls to the extending writer act as if no cloning took
place and things break.
The easiest solution is to just get rid of cloning. We could also clone the
ExtendingWriter and replace it's reference to the extended writer with the just
cloned one but that's harder so we just remove it.
As there are a lot of "extending writer" and "extended writer" in the above
paragraphs and I'm too lazy to write up something better here's another attempt
at a TLDR:
Cloning is broken as ExtendingWriter is a reference to a writer that has
a reference to the writer we are cloning - that writer would have to have it's
reference updated but that's hard. So we solve it it by not cloning at all.
Go does not support inheritance, just composition. While composition with type
embedding (i.e. forwarding method calls to the embedded type) can replace
inheritance for most use cases this is not one of them. We really want to
overwrite methods so that method calls from inside the base writer also use the
custom methods ouf our extending writer - naive embedding does not work here
as the this in this.WriteText refers to the embedded type rather than the outer
extending type (see open recursion).
A simple solution is to make a reference of the extending type
available from the extended type and use that for nested method calls. We'll go
with that one as it does not require huge code changes. Another solution would
be to flatten the writing process and not use nested method calls - this is
what blackfriday does. Assuming the current solution works I feel it's cleaner
and keeps the ugliness of simulating inheritance with composition contained to
a small portion of the code while blackfridays approach requires all write
methods to be written in a flat style (i.e. not do nested calls to write by
being called twice with entering / leaving). The current solution becomes ugly
if we want to do multiple levels of extending but i don't expect that to be a
valid use case - if it turns out to be one we can always adapt to it
later. YAGNI.
TIL embedded types can be acessed by their non-namespaced name - so there
actually is no need for a type alias to access .strings.Builder, one can just
use .Builder.
The existing approach made it hard to extend existing writers.
With this change, replacing individual methods of a writer is possible by
embedding it.
Sharing the WriteNodes function also removes some unnecesseray duplication, so
win win.
