From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:53:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87had9tboh.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8738shvzaj.fsf@gmail.com> <87ppvkiz8b.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc5cviu6.fsf@gmail.com> <871u80imo6.fsf@gmail.com> <33429FE3-CAA5-4F58-8536-135F96CA9C11@gmail.com> <406B4BB5-5A38-44EB-AC97-DEA17644164C@gmail.com> <3EAEACD0-1B99-40B7-8A5D-AE491C9F8528@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmj0-0006mO-BV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:53:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmis-0001m2-UD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:53:42 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmis-0001lx-NV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:53:34 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmio-0000qR-DP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:53:30 +0200 Received: from g231232115.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.232.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:53:30 +0200 Received: from tjolitz by g231232115.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:53:30 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik writes: > 3. The only exception to this rule are property drawers, which will > currently not be exported by any of the backends. Nicolas > proposed to define a derived backend that does export the property > drawer, or he proposed to use macros to extract specific properties > to include into the exported file. Both are viable options. > One possible remaining option would be to introduce user variables > org-BACKEND-format-property-drawer-function in analogy > org-BACKEND-format-drawer-function. This would provide an easy way > to configure export of the property drawer as a whole, in a way > that could be file-local. > > I would like to have this option +1 property drawers are just too useful to restrict them to Org-mode's internal meta-data, and anything that makes it easier to export them when used for 'use case' related meta-data or as simple DB is welcome. -- cheers, Thorsten