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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on cleaning (DRYing) up my publishing list
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Justin Gordon <justin.gordon@gmail.com> writes:

> Lisp gurus, here is my feeble attempt at DRYing out my org-publish-project-alist. 
>
> I'm setting up an octopress publishing system for several blogs, so my list might grow and I'd like to avoid duplication
>
> * Please advise on how I may make this cleaner and clearer. Original is at bottom.
> * And is there a better way than using the publishing settings for things like with-toc?
> * Does recursive still work for 8.2?
> * Would this be better done with some sort of macros?
>

Yes, instead of constructing list structure on the fly as you do below
(cons, append, list, etc.), check out ``Backquote'':

       (info "(elisp) Backquote")

-- 
Nick