Re: Help with new exporter

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com> writes:

> Success!
>
> Thanks to all for your help. I really do appreciate your time.
>
> I cannot figure out why I'm getting the brackets that no one else is
> getting (Rasmus -- my problem is that they're there and I don't want
> them), but I now have a filter that will take them out:
>
>       (defun jr-org-delete-brackets-from-tex-file
>         (text backend info)
>         (replace-regexp-in-string "\\[\\]" "" text))
>
>       (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-final-output-functions
>                    'jr-org-delete-brackets-from-tex-file)
>
> Now to explore how to implement this only when I'm using the exam 
> document
> class, perhaps by using a derived backend. (It may be that it won't 
> cause
> any problems with other classes, but it seems sloppy to have it working
> all the time, no?)
>
> Thanks to Robert for the detailed and careful responses, to Charles for
> suggesting the filters, and to Rasmus for the example that helped me
> straighten me out at the end.
>
> And I can't resist an aside to Nick -- I've really appreciated both
> the tone and the content of your detailed contributions to this list
> over the years. I find it difficult to believe that you're more
> pessimistic than I am, but I take some odd pleasure in making
> something work that you thought wouldn't work. ;-)
>

You underestimate my pessimism :-) I had no doubt that you can get rid
of specific artifacts using specific filters like this - you could after
all, run a sed script on the latex output and get rid of this stuff - it
wouldn't be an org-only solution, but that's OK in my book.

I hope you are ultimately successful in producing exams that look
exactly like you want them, using these mechanisms. But I have my doubts
- you have won a battle, but the war is still raging afaict. OTOH, if
you prove me wrong, I would be delighted!

-- 
Nick