[PATCH] Re: Description list with " :: " in the tag.

[Ihor Radchenko]

"Tom Alexander" <tom@fizz.buzz> writes:

> I've written a patch (attached) with my proposed wording changes to
> the documentation, should I be starting another thread or does
> dropping it here work best?

You can just modify subject with [PATCH], as I did.

> ... I do not have commit access so I'd need
> someone with such authority to do the last bit.

Sure.

> +  =TAG-TEXT= is one of more objects from the standard set so long as
> +  they do not contain a newline character, until the last occurrence
> +  of the substring =" :: "= (two colons surrounded by whitespace,
> +  without the quotes).

It does not fully represent what is going on - Org parser is top-down
and does not parse objects before it is done parsing the descriptive
list item. So,

- *foo :: bar* does not actually contain bold markup

Rather it is "* foo" tag + "bar* does not actually contain bold markup" 
description.

What happens is that the parser splits the first line of the item by the
last " :: " and only then proceeds with parsing the tag and description
using standard set of objects:

- <....> :: <text not containing :: >

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