Re: Problem with ditaa when doing export from command line

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Herbert Sitz <hsitz@nwlink.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:
> > Works fine for me here, so there is probably a syntax error in the lisp
> > file(s) you load or the lisp code you eval - try using a minimal setup
> > file as shown below:
> > 
> > 
> > I do
> > 
> >    emacs -batch --visit=foo.org  -l export.el --funcall org-export-as-html
> > 
> > with export.el containing the following:
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >  setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
> >  require 'ob-ditaa)
> >  setq org-babel-temporary-directory "tmp")
> >setq org-ditaa-jar-path "/home/nick/elisp/org-mode/contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar")
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > 
> 
> Nick -- Thanks very much, I did get it working with your help.  
> 
> However I could not get it to work if I used an --eval in the 
> command line, had to move the assignment into setting.el to get it to work.  
> Did you get it to work with an --eval statement in the command line?
> 

That's probably a quoting problem (you are on Windoze, right?) The command line
on Windoze sucks raw eggs (well, not just the command line, but I'm biased :-).

On Linux, I used two kinds of quotes in order to protect the vulnerable characters
inside each lisp sexp (you could also use backslashes strategically):

   emacs -batch --visit foo.org --eval '(setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)'\
                                --eval "(require 'ob-ditaa)"\
                                --eval '(setq org-babel-temporary-directory "tmp")'\
                                --eval '(setq org-ditaa-jar-path "/home/nick/elisp/org-mode/contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar")'\
                                --funcall org-export-as-html

Inconvenient, but it works.

Nick