Re: agenda formatting

[John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com>]

Replying to myself, just in case others have this question.......

> Hi --
> 
> I'd like to export my agenda to an html page, and I'd like to do
> regularly with a cron job. I've set up the custom agenda view, and
> use the batch processing described here:
> 
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-agenda-elsewhere.html#Using-the-agenda-elsewhere
> 
> When I export the custom agenda using C-c a e interactively from
> within emacs, the agenda.html file has all the formatting of the
> usual agenda within org -- colored and bold fonts as I expect them to
> be. However, when I create the agenda using this command from the
> command line:
> 
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-batch-agenda "e")'
> 
> all of the text in agenda.html is the same color. In addition, much of
> the text in the html version is italicized.
> 
> Looking at the html source of the two different versions, I see that
> the CSS style settings are different, so the export process of the
> batch file is picking up a different css style sheet than the one
> picked up by the export process called within emacs. (I found the file
> org.css in my org git directory, but that seems to have still
> different settings for faces.)
> 
> I've not changed any of the default face settings.
> 
> Should the formatting in the html file produced by the batch process
> be the same as the formatting produced using C-c a e within emacs.
> Or, in other words, is there a problem with my set-up? 
> 
> Apologies if there's an obvious answer to this -- my searches haven't
> turned up anything.
> 
> Thanks --
> 

With a little more digging, I've solved my problem. Not sure that this
is the best solution, because I still don't understand why running
org-batch-agenda from the command line wasn't picking up the same style
sheet as the export agenda command run interactively from within emacs.

However, inserting this in my org config file has agenda.htm looking
the same as it looks in the org buffer no matter agenda.htm is
generated:

***code starts here
(setq org-agenda-export-html-style 

"<style>
      body {
        color: #daa520;
        background-color: #000000;
      }
      .org-agenda-date {
        /* org-agenda-date */
        color: #87cefa;
      }
      .org-agenda-structure {
        /* org-agenda-structure */
        color: #87cefa;
      }
      .org-scheduled {
        /* org-scheduled */
        color: #98fb98;
      }
      .org-scheduled-previously {
        /* org-scheduled-previously */
        color: #ff7f24;
      }
      .org-scheduled-today {
        /* org-scheduled-today */
        color: #98fb98;
      }
      .org-tag {
        /* org-tag */
        font-weight: bold;
      }
      .org-todo {
        /* org-todo */
        color: #ffc0cb;
        font-weight: bold;
      }

      a {
        color: inherit;
        background-color: inherit;
        font: inherit;
        text-decoration: inherit;
      }
      a:hover {
        text-decoration: underline;
      }
</style>">
)
***code ends here