Re: Newbie: Custom link type formatting in LaTeX export?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Christian,

this looks pretty good!  I just made a let binding for you local fnc  
variable and replaced org-solidify-link-text with org-link-unescape.

Thanks, the patch is applied.

- Carsten

On May 12, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Christian Moe wrote:

> Hi,
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> This patch (below and attached) seems to fix it. I've put the code  
> at the
> end of org-export-latex-links, which seems to be the right place (it  
> doesn't
> parallel the organization in the html exporter though).
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> Please check my work! I'm new to Lisp, and used git for the first  
> time today.
>
> Simple test: Export to LaTeX from an Org file including
>
> [[bbdb:Jane Doe][Ms Doe]]
>
> Currently it defaults to fixed-width (\texttt{Ms Doe}). When  
> patched, it
> should come out italicized (\textit{Ms Doe}) as per the export  
> function
> in org-bbdb.el.
>
> Yours,
> Christian
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> diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
> index 15d667e..eb293da 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-latex.el
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> @@ -1876,6 +1876,11 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
> 		(setq path (org-export-latex-protect-amp path)
> 		      desc (org-export-latex-protect-amp desc)))
> 	      (insert (format org-export-latex-hyperref-format path desc)))
> +	     ((functionp (setq fnc (nth 2 (assoc type org-link-protocols))))
> +	      ;; The link protocol has a function for formatting the link
> +	      (insert
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> +		      (funcall fnc (org-solidify-link-text raw-path) desc  
> 'latex))))
> 	     (t (insert "\\texttt{" desc "}")))))))
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> >> It looks like support for formatting custom link types in LaTeX  
> export
> >> is broken?
> (...)
> >> I've found that org-bbdb-export does not italicize bbdb links in
> >> LaTeX, nor does my own org-cite-export turn my custom =cite:= links
> >> into LaTeX =\cite{}= citations. Everything works fine in HTML  
> export,
> >> but in LaTeX all custom link types get formatted as = 
> \texttt{descr}=.
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> >> I see that org-export-as-html and org-export-as-docbook look up
> >> org-link-protocols to get the function for formatting the link,  
> but it
> >> seems that org-export-as-latex doesn't.
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> > Hi CHristian,
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> > this is correct.  Since you already looked into the code, would  
> you like
> > to write a patch to this effect?
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> > - Carsten
> >
> diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
> index 15d667e..eb293da 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-latex.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
> @@ -1876,6 +1876,11 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
> 		(setq path (org-export-latex-protect-amp path)
> 		      desc (org-export-latex-protect-amp desc)))
> 	      (insert (format org-export-latex-hyperref-format path desc)))
> +	     ((functionp (setq fnc (nth 2 (assoc type org-link-protocols))))
> +	      ;; The link protocol has a function for formatting the link
> +	      (insert
> +		    (save-match-data
> +		      (funcall fnc (org-solidify-link-text raw-path) desc  
> 'latex))))
> 	     (t (insert "\\texttt{" desc "}")))))))
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- Carsten