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I've found a misfeature of pp2latex that is so severe that I'd
call it a bug! A link like...
\L{url=foo}<bah>
translates into commands that typeset the URL in small
font, and then put the body.
This is a very strange decision -- it certainly is not how I would
want to format/handle a link/URL.
I believe the right thing to do is to instead plant a LaTeX command which
will handle a url/link. Something like...
\ppointURL{foo}{bah}
Perhaps the default could be the current behaviour, but
the end-user is free to re-define it in LaTeX so as to typeset the URL
however they choose.
I can supply diffs or a patched pp2latex if anyone is interested.
Now the question:
pp2latex translates description lists
:foo:all about a foo
:bar:all about bars and things
into a latex itemize list, with a short first paragraph.
\begin{itemize}
\item foo
all about a foo
\item bar
all about bars and things
\end{itemize}
WHY?? Latex has a description list, so why is it not used?
I'd have expected it to be ranslated as...
\begin{description}
\item [foo] all about a foo
\item [bar] all about bars and things
\end{description}
Is there a strong reason why not?
Robert.
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