ah, thank you Diego, I wil ltry it out and report back.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:29 AM Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> I found a solution for this, which I am using with my (still in
> development) setup for exporting from org-mode to LeanPub. I found a
> function for extracting document global properties at
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/21715, which you could use to support
> your first example. After defining =org-global-prop-value=, you could call
> it like this:
>
> (org-global-prop-value "ORG_LMS_COURSE")
>
> You can see my setup, including the two functions, here:
> https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org#publishing-to-leanpub
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --Diego
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:33 AM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am writing this interface to my university's learning management
>> system:
>> https://github.com/titaniumbones/Org-Marking-Mode/tree/use-structured-course-def.
>> I am only using hte exporting system tangentially and I have not defined a
>> new exporter. However, I would really like to be able to set some variable
>> values in the header section of hte document, e.g.:
>>
>> #+ORG_LMS_COURSE: becomingmodern
>>
>> or
>>
>> #+PROPERTY: org-lms-course hackinghistory
>>
>> I thought the latter might work but (org-entry-get-with-inheritance
>> "org-lms-course) and (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "ORG_LMS_COURSE") both
>> return nil.  The former is in any case somewhat cleaner-looking but I am
>> not finding in the manual an instructions on how to add my own keywords.
>> Is it possible to do this? I can of course always set a buffer-local
>> variable in a src block, e.g.:
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (setq org-lms-course 'becomingmodern)
>> #+end_src.
>>
>> but I would like to be able to avoid that where possible.
>>
>> Thanks for the help as usual!
>>
>>
>>