On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 1:28 AM Thibault Marin <thibault.marin@gmx.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure where you are trying to get to the value (in the
> publishing function?), but I use something like the following to handle
> custom keywords:
>
> ,----
> | #+MWP_EXPORT_TYPE: slides
> |
> | #+name: elt
> | #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :exports none
> | (let ((tree (org-element-parse-buffer)))
> |   (org-element-map
> |       tree 'keyword
> |     (lambda (r)
> |       (let ((key (org-element-property :key r))
> |             (value (org-element-property :value r)))
> |         (when (string= key "MWP_EXPORT_TYPE")
> |           value))) ;; Return the keyword value
> |     nil t))
> | #+end_src
> `----
>
> If you have access to the parsed tree or the buffer filename, you may be
> able to use this or something similar (maybe wrapped in a function).
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
I think this is a pretty good option -- I would use this in an interactive
function that is called from the org buffer, so I should be able to parse
it. I keep all my lectures in a single file, and same for all my other
course materials, so I guess I will have to do some testing and see how
long the parse operation takes...