Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Phillip Lord writes:

 > Well, I agree, it's not a particular disaster, and it is certainly one
 > option that I considered. However, the problem remains that org-mode
 > uses the lines before the first header to specify a set of variables,
 > which is something that I cannot do if the first line is a header.

That's a design bug in org-mode, then.  The obvious place to put those
variables is in a variables block in the *last* page, as Emacs has
been doing since before card-punched programs disappeared.

 > > Ugh.
 > 
 > It's less ugly in the org-mode view of a file, where it just looks like
 > a normal org-mode header.

I guess I'm just spoiled by ReST, where in many use cases viewing the
file as plain text is close to optimal (the main thing I'd change is
that I'd use // to delimit italics and ** for bold).