Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes

[Max Nikulin]

On 23/10/2023 16:17, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
> WRT cons vs. plist, I am mostly neutral. Slightly in favour of plist for
> future extensibility.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by callback.

Originally I had an idea that :export should call some function that 
adds a note to info. Now I have another proposal. Instead of returning a 
cons, :export function should return result of some new function, e.g. 
(org-ascii-make-link-with-note NOTE DESCRIPTION), so a `cons' or a plist 
becomes an implementation detail that may be changed any time. The only 
inconvenience is necessity to declare this function to allow lazy 
loading of ox-ascii and perhaps to avoid circular dependencies.

> May you provide an example when the angle brackets are not added?

angle and square brackets inconsistency

--- 8< ---
# (require 'ol-man)
# (setq org-ascii-links-to-notes nil)

- web :: [[http://orgmode.org][Org mode]]
- man :: [[man:man][man]]
- internal :: [[Heading][heading]]

* Heading
--- >8 ---
--- 8< ---
web
      [Org mode] (<http://orgmode.org>)
man
      man (http://man.he.net/?topic=man&section=all)
internal
      heading (See section 1)


1 Heading
═════════
--- >8 ---

> > > > +           (if (string-match-p "\\`\u200b*\\[.*\\]\u200b*\\'" anchor)
> > > > +               anchor
> > > > +            (format "[%s]" anchor))
> > >
> > > This is out of scope of the patch, isn't it?
> >
> > Not really.
>
> Do you mean "this is out of scope"?

I mean, it is a related change. E.g. ox-html and ox-latex do not add 
square brackets around link descriptions, it is specifics of ox-ascii. 
Square brackets are sometimes added for inline links, sometimes they are 
not. Square brackets are always added for links as notes. I would avoid 
duplicated square brackets when links are formatted as notes and for 
inline links when description is formatted with brackets.