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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: new export question: how to add a new option to an existing
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:57:05 +0100
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Hello,

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to add a new option to the LaTeX backend from a contrib/
> package so that it can be set with a #+ keyword.  Is this possible?  If
> so how would one go about making this change.  If not what's the best
> way to add a new optional value to an existing backend (to be used by a
> new link exporting function and/or the
> org-export-before-parsing-hook).

It really depends on what you need. I don't get your example. What would
that option do?

Anyway, you can use defadvice (see "ox-bibtex.el") to alter the
behaviour of an existing back-end.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou