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Subject: Re: org-e-groff-export-to-groff produces empty output file
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Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't get org-e-groff to
> generate anything but an empty output file.  I've boiled this down to
> the following minimal example.  First save the attached example.org file
> to /tmp/example.org.  Then run the following in your shell,
>
>     # -*- shell-script -*-
>     emacs --batch --eval '(let ((org-path "~/.emacs.d/src/org-mode/"))
>     (add-to-list (quote load-path) (expand-file-name "lisp" org-path))
>     (add-to-list (quote load-path) (expand-file-name "contrib/lisp" org-path))
>     (require (quote org))
>     (require (quote org-e-groff)))' /tmp/example.org -f org-e-groff-export-to-groff
>
> The above generates an empty file in /tmp/example.groff.
>
> What am I missing?


Perhaps the backend is not being correctly passed on to org-export-as.

I am not at a machine where I can check this right now, but 

  (org-export-as 'e-bogus)

used to merrily run to completion producing an empty output if the
objects for the named backend were not bound. 

HTH,

Chuck