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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ODT preferred format option per-file?
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:25:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4qkbwtp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjb1fuq5.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:15:06 +0530")

Hello,

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have one particular org file that I would like to export to PDF by
>> way of ODT. (I already set up outline styling in LibreOffice and I
>> would like to use that, instead of trying to reconfigure a similar
>> look in LaTeX. For fun, I did try the LaTeX pdf export and the output
>> format is not what I need for this case.)
>>
>> But I may want to export other org files to ODT *without* converting them to PDF.
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Extending-ODT-export.html
>>
>> This says I can customize the org-export-odt-preferred-output-format
>> variable. This works beautifully, but it's a global setting that will
>> apply to every ODT export.
>>
>> So my question is -- is there any export option for the preferred
>> format, per file? Something like:
>>
>> #+ODT_PREFERRED_FORMAT: pdf
>>
>> I couldn't find any documentation in the ODT export section of the
>> manual for an option like this.
>>
>> Alternately, I suppose I could write a lisp function that would set
>> the variable and call the export, but that would definitely be a hack.
>
> Old exporter
> ============
>
> If you are using org-odt.el, then you can use file local variables.  I
> have pushed a fix which makes string values of this variable safe.
>
>     M-x add-file-local-variable RET org-export-odt-preferred-output-format
>     RET "pdf" RET
>
> Or 
>
> Add the following to your Org file.  Remember to re-visit the file to
> activate the newly installed value.
>
>     # Local Variables:
>     # org-export-odt-preferred-output-format: "pdf"
>     # End:
>
>
> New exporter
> ============
>
> The above local variable trick will fail in case of org-e-odt.el.  When
> I get some time I will introduce a per-buffer keyword for this variable.

Note that Org provides a BIND mechanism for such cases.

So, adding:

  #+BIND: org-e-export-opt-preferred-output-format "pdf"

somewhere in the buffer should be enough.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-02  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31  4:53 ODT preferred format option per-file? James Harkins
2012-09-01 18:45 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-01 20:40   ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-02  8:43     ` Bastien
2012-09-02  9:25   ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-02  8:57 James Harkins

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