Re: [PATCH] Allow passing post-process to org-publish-org-to for use by org-export-to

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

At Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:02:12 +0100,
Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> writes:
> 
> > I have been looking at publishing to HTML using pandoc. Because pandoc
> > requires post-processing to transform the org-mode markdown output to
> > other formats, it is necessary to use the post-process parameter of
> > org-export-to-file. 
> 
> > I think this patch makes sense; let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks for your patch.
> 
> Though, it is not necessary. `post-process' is meant for processing
> after an asynchronous export (e.g., prepare a buffer in the current
> process).
> 
> You're looking after a filter.  See
> 
>   (info "(org) Advanced configuration")
> 
> for more information.

Hi Nicholas,

Thanks very much for your response (and ox.el)! I looked at filters,
but concluded they were not appropriate, because pandoc operates on
the file as a whole, and writes to a file, and can return binary
content (for example, if it is generating PDFs). It seemed equivalent
to the way that the latex exporter uses pdflatex to generate a PDF,
and the latex exported uses a post-process function.

I could be wrong, though. It would also be convenient to have access
to the info plist; in fact, I was going to write another email about
having access to the info plist in a post-process filter.

Is there a way to define a filter that operates on the entire content,
is guaranteed to run after everything else, and can handle binary
content? Thanks.

best, Erik

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