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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Subject: Re: [Exporter] Export of property drawers
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:37:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27gj7vtub.fsf@vpn-client437.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u9fnt8o.fsf@gmail.com>


Thanks, Nicolas,

That's very useful to know. And although "d:t" was a lot simpler, I
understand the point that people will want to customize how they want to
export their databases anyway. Your information below is enough to get
me started and may save me days of work.

Yours,
Christian

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Through macros, you can already access to specific properties, e.g.:
>
>   {{{property(ARCHIVE)}}}
>
> There is no function to dump the whole database in the export buffer
> because it contains many Org-specific entries which are irrelevant and
> because there are many ways to dump it.
>
> That's not what you asked, but the following function:
>
> #+begin_emacs-lisp
> (defun my-database-dump (backend)
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*:PROPERTIES" nil t)
>     (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
>       (when (eq (org-element-type element) 'property-drawer)
>         (goto-char (org-element-property :end element))
>         (insert "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE\n"
>                 (buffer-substring (org-element-property :begin element)
>                                   (progn (goto-char
>                                           (org-element-property :end element))
>                                          (skip-chars-backward " \r\t\n")
>                                          (forward-line)
>                                          (point)))
>                 "#+END_EXAMPLE\n")))))
> #+end_emacs-lisp
>
> when added to `org-export-before-parsing-hook', will wrap every property
> drawer within an example block so it can appear in the export output.
>
>
> Regards,

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-10 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09 16:46 [Exporter] Export of property drawers Alexander Baier
2013-05-09 18:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-05-09 20:01   ` Christian Moe
2013-05-10  8:17     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-05-10 13:37       ` Christian Moe [this message]
2013-05-10 13:14   ` Alexander Baier

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