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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Stephen J. Barr" <stevejb@uw.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help with custom exporter
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 02:00:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbf962f8.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO1hKsu9v8Js3TCHV=Ue7-2ugJNjE+UMEwEyJgjO94R8_6i4Pg@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen J. Barr's message of "Sat, 30 May 2015 16:49:44 -0700")

Hello,

"Stephen J. Barr" <stevejb@uw.edu> writes:

> I am trying to modify ox-md.el. I do not know too much emacs lisp so please
> bear with me.
>
> Hypothetically, if I want to modify the exporter to add a "THIS DOCUMENT
> BY: " at the beginning, could I do:
>
> (defun org-md-template (contents info)
>   "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion.
> CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string.  INFO is a plist used
> as a communication channel."
>   (concat "THIS DOCUMENT BY: " (plist-get info :author) "\n" contents)
> )
>
>
> However, I get an error:
>
> org-md-template: Wrong type argument: characterp, #("Stephen
>
> What is the output type of plist-get? Not a string?

:author contains a secondary string. You need to turn it into the string
with, e.g., `org-export-data'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-30 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-30 23:49 help with custom exporter Stephen J. Barr
2015-05-31  0:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2015-05-31 17:26   ` Stephen J. Barr

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