On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:52 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Awesome. Do you know whether there's an official way to share this sort
> of
> > behavior between ox backends or is it just creating a function and
> calling
> > it from both places or something?
>
> Do you want to remove all markup from some parsed text?
>
> You could define temporary export back-end with
> `org-export-create-backend', and apply it with
> `org-export-data-with-backend'. See for example, how
> `org-latex-headline' formats headings (`text' binding in the function).
>
> If that's the case, you need to know exactly what you want. It is pretty
> obvious for bold markup, but what would happen to, e.g., a_b or \alpha
> or <<target>>?
>

Thanks for the tip. What I'm thinking more is somehow getting the heading
pre-output generation, stripping any characters that `org` would consider
special (I'm hoping there's already a function that can at least mark
'markup' text in a given org string), and _then_ passing it to whatever ox
function is responsible for using the title. That way it's as generic as it
can possibly be.

I confess though that I don't follow exactly what you're talking about
defining a temporary export back-end. Why would that be necessary or
beneficial to the end of teaching org how to use only the 'plain text' of a
heading for the title in N ox backends?

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