Re: Comments break up a paragraph when writing one-setence-per-line

[Max Nikulin]

On 03/10/2021 00:57, Tom Gillespie wrote:
> A general comment (heh) here. This is not a bug and not easily fixed.
> Line comments are their own top level element distinct from
> paragraphs. If you need something that fits in a paragraph you can use
> @@comment:@@ at the start of a line.
>
> I agree that it is annoying, but Org line comment syntax also only
> works if it starts the line, so the behavior diverges from traditional
> code comments. It may make sense to update the docs to call them "line
> comments" instead of just comments.

Agree, if parser is not changed, I suppose, the manual and the guide 
should state very prominent that comment line disrupts current paragraph 
unlike "%" in TeX.

However there 5 users in this thread who expect that "# " or "#+latex:" 
should not be "element" and should be a part of surrounding paragraph.

Thank you for the idea with @@comment:@@, let me stress that final @@ 
should be on the next line. It is similar to my idea with a macro 
expanding to nothing. It may be documented in the manual. However I 
would expect that `org-lint' issues a warning concerning unknown 
backends to catch typos in names. By the way, `org-lint' does not like 
the variant with comment as macro.

I think, it is a bug in LaTeX backend that the following becomes 3 
separate paragraphs:

   #+macro: comment
   Beginning of a paragraph A.
   @@comment: FIXME@@
   Paragraph A continues.
   {{{comment(TODO)}}}
   End of paragraph A.

And the following is really confusing:

   How many paragraphs
   #+html: <!-- comment -->
   is here
   #+latex: %
   in LaTeX and HTML output?

LaTeX backend exports it as a continuous paragraph (an idea of a weird 
hack how to comment a line if only LaTeX export is needed). HTML backend 
believes that it is 3 paragraphs.