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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Chao Lu <loochao@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Publish-current-file error
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:10:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F7B18D42-509C-4358-8423-EB095D2EFE55@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cbb63d01002021513s7df5589eu852d6fa0e5e3ee7b@mail.gmail.com>


On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:13 AM, Chao Lu wrote:

> Hey Nick,
>
> Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation, now I'm pretty clear  
> about the error. But I just get the idea why we could not publish  
> arbitrary org file as html to current directory, I guess it could be  
> kind of troublesome that every time to set up the project first?

That process is called "exporting", not "publishing", it needs no  
further
setup and is described in the manual.

- Carsten

>
> What do you think?
>
> Chao
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>  
> wrote:
> Chao Lu <loochao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just start a new org file, say, PHY.org, type very simple words,  
> then
> > tried
> > M-x org-publish-current-file.
> >
> > The *backtrace* tells:
> > --------
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >   file-name-as-directory(nil)
>
> ... and as you can see, the problem is that file-name-as-directory  
> is called
> with a nil argument, whereas it expects a string.
>
> >   (let* ((project-plist ...) (base-dir ...) (include-list ...)  
> (recurse ...)
> > (extension ...) (match ...)) (setq org-publish-temp-files nil)
> > (org-publish-get-base-files-1 base-dir recurse match exclude-regexp
> > exclude-regexp) (mapc (lambda ... ...) include-list) org-publish- 
> temp-files)
>
> >   org-publish-get-base-files(("options" :section-numbers nil
> > :table-of-contents nil :style "<script
> > type=\"text/javascript\">\n                /* <![CDATA[ */\n
> > org_html_manager.set(" TOC ", 1);\n                 
> org_html_manager.set("
> > LOCAL_TOC ", 1);\n                org_html_manager.set("  
> VIEW_BUTTONS ", "
> > true ");\n                org_html_manager.set(" MOUSE_HINT ", "  
> underline
> > "); // or background-color like '#eeeeee'\n
> > org_html_manager.setup ();\n                /* ]]> */\n
> > </script>") nil)
>
> ... and this tells us that org-publish-get-base-files got called and
> somewhere in the execution of the let* form, it got the error.
> So you look at that let* form in org-publish-get-base-files and you
> see this:
>
>  (let* ((project-plist (cdr project))
>         (base-dir (file-name-as-directory
>                    (plist-get project-plist :base-directory)))
>         ...
>
> which tells me that you *have* to have a project-plist and it *has*
> to have a :base-directory property in order to be able to publish.
> You just cannot take an arbitrary org file and publish it without
> providing the publishing framework for it.
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
> > >
> > > > Today I was trying to publish a single org file using
> > > > org-publish-current-file, however, org refused to do so, the  
> error
> > > message
> > > > is
> > > >
> > > > ====
> > > > let*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> > > > ====
> > > >
> > > > I believe the org-publish function work well, for I could get  
> the
> > > > pre-defined project published smoothly. So do anyone has met  
> similar
> > > > problem?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Please set debug-on-error to t and after recreating the error,  
> post the
> > > resulting backtrace. See the "Feedback" section of the Org  
> manual for more
> > > details on how to report problems.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Nick
>

- Carsten

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-02 22:30 Publish-current-file error Chao Lu
     [not found] ` <12521.1265150160@alphaville.usa.hp.com>
2010-02-02 22:47   ` Chao Lu
     [not found]     ` <12934.1265151708@alphaville.usa.hp.com>
2010-02-02 23:13       ` Chao Lu
2010-02-02 23:38         ` Nick Dokos
2010-02-03  0:10         ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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