Support org-entities (Special Symbols)

[lyderic-dutillieux]

Hi,

I just filed an issue to Orgize about supporting org-entities (Special Symbols).

I can't use org special symbols with Firn for now especially non breaking spaces in my case.
There is a workaround, which is to use HTML special symbols like  , but there are caveats like bad editor integration (compared to org-entities) and losing interop when exporting to other file formats.

Do you think of another way to handle this ?

Thanks

[teesloane]

I didn't even know about org-entities until today - good to know. It sounds like this is something the parser will have to handle - I would be hesitant to try and find a way to make this work in Firn. My intention with this project is to cover the largest / broadest features of Org -- and Orgize manages to capture most of them for now -- sorry for the inconvenience.

[lyderic-dutillieux]

I think I could implement this.
It seems we just need a map from org-entities to HTML equivalents, and replace keys by values in the generated HTML.

[teesloane]

I'd encourage you to try. It sound like the string replacement would need to run on every every text node, so it's worth considering if it would impact performance. I haven't done any performance testing yet, but we could check some basics before deciding whether to make this a default behaviour or to put it behind a config flag.