Re: export-latex-final-hook

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks to Dan and Carsten,
>
> I now have this:
>
>
> (defun  mwp/push-latex-to-odt ()
>   "takes the exported tex file from org-mode and converts it to odt,
> then launches openoffice"
>   (shell-command
>    (format  "mk4ht oolatex  %s.tex"
> 	    (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name))))
>   (shell-command
>    (format  "ooffice  %s.odt &"
> 	    (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name)))))
>
> (add-hook 'org-export-latex-final-hook
> 	  'mwp/push-latex-to-odt)
>
>
> which works fine.  The only issue is that the first shell command,
> mk4ht oolatex, sometimes takes a while to finish processing & would be
> nice to have running in the background.  Should  just write a shell
> script that runs the two commands, and then fork that process? Or is
> there a slightly more elegant way that keeps all of the programming
> contained in a lisp file?

Hi Matt,

It's either start-process or start-process-shell-command you want I
think. Also, I believe we may have hit on not-quite-the-correct export
hook. This seems to work:

(defun  mwp/push-latex-to-odt ()
  "takes the exported tex file from org-mode and converts it to odt,
then launches openoffice"
  (let* ((file-name (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name)))
         (output-buffer "*latex-to-odt output*")
         (cmd (format  "mk4ht oolatex %s.tex && ooffice %s.odt"
                      file-name file-name)))
    (message "Converting latex to odt")
    (start-process-shell-command
     "latex-to-odt" output-buffer cmd)))

(add-hook 'org-export-latex-after-save-hook
          'mwp/push-latex-to-odt)

Dan

>
> Thanks again,
>
> matt
>
>
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