Re: behaviour of org-export--get-subtree-options vs inbuffer-options

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Per Unneberg <punneberg@gmail.com> writes:

> on exporting subtrees to latex, I've noticed that inserting several
> EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA does not do what I naively had expected; that
> each entry be inserted in the header, separated by a newline, along with
> document properties (#+LATEX_HEADER et al). Looking closer at
> org-export--get-subtree-options and comparing to
> org-export--get-inbuffer-options suggests that the former doesn't take
> into account multiple EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER* statements?
>
> Here is a MWE to show what I mean. Exporting the following document with
> C-c C-e l L inserts all lines in the preamble
>
> #+LATEX_HEADER: %%latex_header_1
> #+LATEX_HEADER: %%latex_header_2
> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: %%latex_header_extra_1
> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: %%latex_header_extra_2
>
> * Latex test
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: %%subtree-latex-header-extra-1
>   :EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: %%subtree-latex-header-extra-2
>   :EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER: %%subtree-latex-header-1
>   :EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER: %%subtree-latex-header-2
>   :END:
>
> However, running C-c C-e C-s l L on the subtree removes the
> %%latex_header_* and inserts only the first subtree-latex statements
> (extra-1, header-1). 
>
> Is this the intended behaviour?

Yes, you cannot have duplicate property names in the same property
drawer. OTOH you can append values to a property with :NAME+: syntax
(e.g. :EXPORT_LATEX_HEADER+:). You can also try to make everything fit
in a single line.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou