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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modifying the Beamer Exporter
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zju9m3ir.fsf@pank.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc4ygfhy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:14:01 +0100")


>> I want to include my collaborators in the header of each org file just
>> as I would authors, that is by including a line like
>>
>> #+COLLABORATORS: Alice & Bob
>>
>> I've found some limited documentation on modifying the exporter (manual
>> section 12.3) and taken a look at ox.el, ox-latex.el, ox-beamer.el, etc.
>>
>> What I did was:
>>   + Create a new backend derived from the beamer one
>>     + add COLLABORATORS to its options-alist
>>     + set the template (in translate-alist) to one handling collaborators
>>
>> This works, but before I continued on making other modifications (in a
>> similar vein), I wanted to check in with people with a higher level
>> understanding.

In general if it's generally useful make a patch (if feasible). . .

Could you point out exactly which function (with ref to the Beamer
manual) you're using?  Searching for collaborator in the manual didn't
give me any hints. . .

> Maybe, maybe not.  Difficult to say unless you give us a better idea of
> what kind of changes you plan on making.

To add to Eric's comment: Filters is a viable option and potentially
more sustainable if your code ain't submitted up stream.

It depends on the nature of your changes.

–Rasmus

-- 
This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-29 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-28 19:15 Modifying the Beamer Exporter Josiah Schwab
2013-06-28 20:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-06-28 20:53   ` Josiah Schwab
2013-06-29 13:48   ` Rasmus [this message]
2013-06-30 23:15     ` Josiah Schwab
2013-07-01  9:13       ` Rasmus

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