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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about org-publish-project-alist
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:10:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uduj1nk.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJMnJ1UOGw5z7MD0ci9_-FM4De_-9rpQ0cw4xT98D69UefTiLQ@mail.gmail.com

Thomas Moyer <tommoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible (and I just have the wrong syntax) to do the following:
>
> (defvar base-dir "~/Documents/org/")
> (defvar pub-dir "~/Public/notes/")
>
> (setq org-publish-project-alist '(
>     ("org"
>         :base-directory base-dir
>         :base-extension "org"
>         :publishing-directory pub-dir
>         :recursive t
>         :publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
>         :exclude "level-..org"
>     )
>     ("static"
>         :base-directory base-dir
>         :base-extension "css\\|js\\|png\\|jpg\\|gif\\|pdf\\|mp3\\|ogg\\|swf"
>         :publishing-directory pub-dir
>         :recursive t
>         :publishing-function org-publish-attachment
>     )
> ("project-root" :components ("org" "static")))
> )
>
> When I have the above code and I call (org-publish-project "project-root"), I get the following error.
>
> Wrong type argument: stringp, base-dir
>

You need to use backquote instead of quote and commas wherevern an "inner"
variable needs to be evaluated. See

 (info "(elisp) Backquote")

Nick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-14 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-14 12:51 Question about org-publish-project-alist Thomas Moyer
2015-04-14 13:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-14 13:10 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-04-14 13:38 ` Feng Shu
2015-04-15 11:20   ` Thomas Moyer

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