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From: Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com>
To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Expansion of macros conditional on export type
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:26:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfccc078-218d-6afb-2e34-9b8bf08ce725@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shx3954e.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

Il 27/05/2016 12:17, Eric S Fraga ha scritto:
>> I know one way would be to use @@latex: ... @@ w/ ascii counterpart
>> each time, but I would rather envision a single macro, which then gets
>> defined in different way depending on the export, in order to reduce
>> redundancy.
> You can put all the different alternatives together?  I do the following
> for degrees Celsius:
>
> #+macro: degc @@odt:°C@@@@latex:\(^{\circ}\)C@@
>
> Looks ugly but I don't have to look at it often.  In text, I simply have
> {{{degc}}}.
>
> (minor aside: I wish macros had been defined to be used with [[[degc]]]
> instead as much easier to type than {{{degc}}})
>

Perfect! Actually I hadn't tried to combine them.
For chunks of text like institute affiliations, may I ask if you use 
different BEGIN_EXPORT blocks or sth else?

Thanks a lot,

Giacomo

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-27 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2016-05-27 10:17 ` Expansion of macros conditional on export type Eric S Fraga
2016-05-27 10:26   ` Giacomo M [this message]
     [not found]   ` <b07885246b7249cf8b3b1ff77e9db435@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-05-27 11:08     ` Eric S Fraga
2016-05-27 10:03 Giacomo M

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