* macros: escaping "," and comments
@ 2010-08-12 22:02 Stefan Vollmar
2010-08-14 8:22 ` Shelagh Manton
2010-08-14 9:35 ` Carsten Dominik
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Vollmar @ 2010-08-12 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist
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Hello,
we are currently changing our institute's web site so that staff members can have a personal page: they can submit Org-mode files which are then automatically converted to (rather nice) HTML pages. One advantage is that this allows us to give staff members a lot of freedom to create content while keeping a "corporate identity" look (and getting the director's permission in the first place).
Our template needs a macro in the org template to create a more "fancy" summary of personal information with a table, a portrait and some icons (aside: please note that you can create really complex HTML code this way if necessary).
Here is a very simple example:
#+title: test
#+macro: mhead #+html: <table><tr><td> email: $1</td><td> phone: $2</td></tr></table>
{{{mhead(
somebody@somewhere.org,
1-234-2134
)}}}
Imagine more lines (job description, fax, homepage, etc) and a more complex table (hidden in a setup file). Having users provide information in this way is not ideal, but has worked surprisingly well (the rest of the template is "proper" Org-mode content).
When creating the Org templates we ran into these problems with Org-mode 7.01 and Emacs 23.2.1:
(1) How can we escape "," in the macro call? Ideally, we would need something like this:
{{{mhead(
one entry\, still the same entry,
the second variable...
(2) It would be nice to use something like this:
{{{mhead(
# Email
somebody@somewhere.org,
# Phone
1-234-2134
)}}}
However, the "#" lines are currently not ignored (as comments) when expanding the macro, these kind of comment lines would be helpful when providing templates in general.
(3) if, in the above example, we delete the #+title line before the macro definition, that macro stops working (the macro definition is not interpreted as such). It seems there must be at least one line with arbitraty contents before the macro definition (bug?).
I think, that (1) (maybe it is already possible - apologies if I overlooked something) and (2) would be useful features in Org-mode.
Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
Warm regards,
Stefan
--
Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298
Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279
Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de
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* Re: macros: escaping "," and comments
2010-08-12 22:02 macros: escaping "," and comments Stefan Vollmar
@ 2010-08-14 8:22 ` Shelagh Manton
2010-08-14 9:35 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Shelagh Manton @ 2010-08-14 8:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:02:09 +0200, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are currently changing our institute's web site so that staff members
> can have a personal page: they can submit Org-mode files which are then
> automatically converted to (rather nice) HTML pages. One advantage is
> that this allows us to give staff members a lot of freedom to create
> content while keeping a "corporate identity" look (and getting the
> director's permission in the first place).
>
> Our template needs a macro in the org template to create a more "fancy"
> summary of personal information with a table, a portrait and some icons
> (aside: please note that you can create really complex HTML code this
> way if necessary).
>
> Here is a very simple example:
>
> #+title: test
> #+macro: mhead #+html: <table><tr><td> email: $1</td><td> phone:
> $2</td></tr></table>
>
> {{{mhead(
> somebody@somewhere.org,
> 1-234-2134
> )}}}
>
> Imagine more lines (job description, fax, homepage, etc) and a more
> complex table (hidden in a setup file). Having users provide information
> in this way is not ideal, but has worked surprisingly well (the rest of
> the template is "proper" Org-mode content).
>
> When creating the Org templates we ran into these problems with Org-mode
> 7.01 and Emacs 23.2.1:
>
> (1) How can we escape "," in the macro call? Ideally, we would need
> something like this:
>
> {{{mhead(
> one entry\, still the same entry,
> the second variable...
>
> (2) It would be nice to use something like this:
>
> {{{mhead(
> # Email
> somebody@somewhere.org,
> # Phone
> 1-234-2134
> )}}}
>
What would be really nifty would be to turn this kind of thing into
microformats.
http://microformats.org/
How hard would that be?
> However, the "#" lines are currently not ignored (as comments) when
> expanding the macro, these kind of comment lines would be helpful when
> providing templates in general.
>
> (3) if, in the above example, we delete the #+title line before the
> macro definition, that macro stops working (the macro definition is not
> interpreted as such). It seems there must be at least one line with
> arbitraty contents before the macro definition (bug?).
>
> I think, that (1) (maybe it is already possible - apologies if I
> overlooked something) and (2) would be useful features in Org-mode.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
>
> Warm regards,
> Stefan
Cheers
Shelagh
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* Re: macros: escaping "," and comments
2010-08-12 22:02 macros: escaping "," and comments Stefan Vollmar
2010-08-14 8:22 ` Shelagh Manton
@ 2010-08-14 9:35 ` Carsten Dominik
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-08-14 9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Vollmar; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist
On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are currently changing our institute's web site so that staff
> members can have a personal page: they can submit Org-mode files
> which are then automatically converted to (rather nice) HTML pages.
> One advantage is that this allows us to give staff members a lot of
> freedom to create content while keeping a "corporate identity" look
> (and getting the director's permission in the first place).
>
> Our template needs a macro in the org template to create a more
> "fancy" summary of personal information with a table, a portrait and
> some icons (aside: please note that you can create really complex
> HTML code this way if necessary).
>
> Here is a very simple example:
>
> #+title: test
> #+macro: mhead #+html: <table><tr><td> email: $1</td><td> phone: $2</
> td></tr></table>
>
> {{{mhead(
> somebody@somewhere.org,
> 1-234-2134
> )}}}
>
> Imagine more lines (job description, fax, homepage, etc) and a more
> complex table (hidden in a setup file). Having users provide
> information in this way is not ideal, but has worked surprisingly
> well (the rest of the template is "proper" Org-mode content).
>
> When creating the Org templates we ran into these problems with Org-
> mode 7.01 and Emacs 23.2.1:
>
> (1) How can we escape "," in the macro call? Ideally, we would need
> something like this:
>
> {{{mhead(
> one entry\, still the same entry,
> the second variable...
This should work - there was a bug, fixed now.
>
> (2) It would be nice to use something like this:
>
> {{{mhead(
> # Email
> somebody@somewhere.org,
> # Phone
> 1-234-2134
> )}}}
>
> However, the "#" lines are currently not ignored (as comments) when
> expanding the macro, these kind of comment lines would be helpful
> when providing templates in general.
Not implemented yet...
- Carsten
>
> (3) if, in the above example, we delete the #+title line before the
> macro definition, that macro stops working (the macro definition is
> not interpreted as such). It seems there must be at least one line
> with arbitraty contents before the macro definition (bug?).
>
> I think, that (1) (maybe it is already possible - apologies if I
> overlooked something) and (2) would be useful features in Org-mode.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
>
> Warm regards,
> Stefan
> --
> Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
> Head of IT group
> Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
> Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
> Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298
> Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279
> Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de
>
>
>
>
>
>
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- Carsten
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