Matt,
This seems like a good use case for a `derived-backend'.
You can use `org-export-define-derived-backend' with 'hugo as the parent, define a :menu-entry to add an export action for your custom export to the hugo menu using '?m' (say) as the key.
Then
C-c C-e H m
will export using your custom variant of hugo.
:-) I'm trying to use the variable to determine whether I export with hugo or with my hugo-reveal franken-backend:
https://github.com/titaniumbones/ox-huveal . So my preference is to evaluate the variable BEFORE export begins.
I guess another option is to just set a buffer-local variable in the file, or use #+FILETAGS: and hack htings that way. I'm not sure what the most sustainable & org-like method relaly is...
HTH,
Chuck
> On Aug 2, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to streamline some veyr ad-hoc workflows I have. One thing I do a lot during the school year is make some changes to an org source file, and then export to hugo markdown with ox-hugo, and finally commit to git (after that I have a git hook that generates the website & uploads the changed pages to the appropriate location, usually a github-pages branch or separate repo).
>
> So I have this code:
>
> (defun mwp-hugo-export-and-release ()
> "Make it faster and easier to put my lectures up on the website."
> (interactive)
>
> (let* ((modfile (org-hugo-export-wim-to-md))
> (basedir (plist-get (org-export-get-environment 'hugo) ':hugo-base-dir ))
> (default-directory (expand-file-name basedir)))
> (magit-stage-file modfile)
> ;; (magit-status)
> (magit-commit-create)
> ) )
>
> It works great, I'm very happy. HOWEVER: in my websites I have two kinds of outputs:
>
> - regular pages -- these get exported to .md files and turned into html by hugo
> - lecture notes -- these get exported to reveal.js HTML pages by org-re-reveal and my hugo theme treats them differently .
>
> I would really like to set a switch somewhere in the file, something like:
>
> #+MWP_EXPORT_TYPE: slides
>
> And then something like
>
> let* ((modfile (if (eq :mwp-export-type "slides") (mwp-hugo-reveal-custom-export-function)
> (org-hugo-export-wim-to-md)))
> ....etc)
> do stuff)
>
>
> But I'm not sure how to get access to a totally non-standard option like the kind I just invented in that last bit of pseudo-code. Anyone have a good suggestion?
>
> Thank you as always!
>
> Matt