Alan,

I finally had the time to fix these old patches.  Sorry about the
wait.

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>> Attached are a couple of changes to ox-koma-letter following a recent
>> bug report by James.
>>
>> 1. Minor fixes around.  The way subject-format was handled before was
>>    ugly.  Updated some docstrings etc.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not competent to talk about the subject handling (the
> elisp is beyond my level). I'm fine with the docstring update, with one
> nitpick: "e.g." should always be present as a parenthetical sentence:
> "..., e.g, ...".

Fixed.

>> 2. better test of whether values have changed in the buffer.  I think
>>    Alan added this first, but the previous implementation.  I think
>>    it's more robust now, and it hopefully addresses James' problems
>>    (please test).  Basically and x-aux variable is added for all
>>    variables x in :option-alist with a default value "unset".  The
>>    value can then be tested.
>
> Isn't "unset" a bit dangerous? Can we detect when we set something to
> "unset" (I don't know if it's a valid option for anything)? (By the way,
> the previous value of "nil", except for foldmarks, was much worse.) How
> about using "ox-koma-unset"?


Fixed.

>> 3. When studying the KOMA manual to answer James' second question I
>>    came across the komavar title which is currently not supported.  I
>>    have added support for a separate SUBJECT keyword.  The heuristic
>>    is something like this (i) if title and subject are be truthful to
>>    the name no matter what, (ii) if only title or subject is said let
>>    title be subject if org-koma-letter-title-is-subject-maybe is t
>>    otherwise be truthful to name.
>
> This sounds good. Once again, I'm not sure I'm competent enough to
> criticize the elisp code.

> [snip]


>> In 3. I would personally like to set
>> org-koma-letter-title-is-subject-maybe to nil by defaults, but this
>> would break backwards comparability for title keywords.
>
> I don't mind breaking backward compatibility at this point, if we make
> clear how to get back the previous output.

TITLE is now title and SUBJECT is now subject by default.

These new patches should apply against the master branch. 

–Rasmus

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