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

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> writes:

> 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). 

Then you're correct: filters won't help.

> 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.

Not really. If you look at `org-latex-publish-to-pdf' you will see that
publishing is done differently: the binary file is generated, then
published as an attachment.

> 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.

Sort of. `org-export-filter-final-output-functions' will get you the
final string, along with the info plist. You can use it to apply
modifications and generate the binary file. The original output can then
be discarded.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou