From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: templating with Org?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:49:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tfbzo96.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJ51ETr_K35LKdV88Tzb6ME3zFwni1_wcfwVCE7FdPUYnK+N1A@mail.gmail.com
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I don't have the impression you would need to hijack the export
> process. It seems like you would need to call a function that gets
> data from some source (e.g the org document) and then populates a
> template with that data, and once that is done, call a regular export
> function. There are a number of template solutions:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryTemplates. I am not sure these
> are too easy to adapt to what you describe.
That's an interesting idea: going from the base Org file to a massaged
Org buffer, and then exporting that. I'll try that out for a bit. Thanks
for that, and for the links!
> I played around with some ideas for this here:
>
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/01/20/Alternatives-to-long-complex-format-statements-in-emacs-lisp/
>
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/01/26/Another-alternative-to-string-templates/
>
>
> Something like these could be used to populate a template I think.
>
> John
>
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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>
> Exporting org files and subtrees is awfully flexible, given all
> the
> possible customizations, but for a long while I've occasionally
> felt the
> need to come at the "export" process from the other direction:
> instead
> of customizing the export appearance of a series of headings,
> instead
> starting with a common block of export text, and interpolating
> values
> from the headings into that text -- ie, templating.
>
> I've felt this need off and on for a couple of years, most
> recently when
> organizing a small literary festival. I really need to keep all
> the
> information about the events in a single place, otherwise I know
> that
> information will go stale right away. But I need the information
> in a
> series of such wildly-varying formats that I can't imagine setting
> up
> (and switching between) export filters in a way that wouldn't make
> me
> cry. Not to mention that the different "export" use-cases all have
> their
> own per-heading boilerplate text, and there's no way I'm going to
> repeat
> all that different boilerplate under each heading.
>
> Obviously there's many ways this could be done. I could somehow
> hijack
> the export process -- in many cases it would be nice too make use
> of the
> skeleton document structures that export provides.
>
> Or maybe dynamic blocks? I've never used them before. Or maybe
> just a
> plain old `org-map-entries', which reads the template text from an
> external file and then steals some of the macro expansion
> functions to
> fill out the values.
>
> Has anyone wanted to do this before? Has anyone actually done it?
> Any
> thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
>
> Yours,
> Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-10 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-08 4:48 templating with Org? Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-08 18:11 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-10 5:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-08-10 12:01 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-10 12:14 ` Rasmus
2015-08-10 12:19 ` John Kitchin
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