Re: [PATCH] tweaks to ox-html style

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Tim Cross writes:

> BTW I think it would be nice if the html export was able to produce/use
> a separate CSS file rather than in-line styles. This would make it
> easier to drop exported HTML files into existing sites with custom
> styles or update the look of exported files without needing to re-export
> or manually edit. The complication is with exporting of HTML snippets,
> where you probably want in-line styles.

Isn't this already covered by existing capabilities? From the manual:

   The HTML export back-end includes a compact default style in each
   exported HTML file.  To override the default style with another
   style, use these keywords in the Org file.  They will replace the
   global defaults the HTML exporter uses.

     #+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style1.css" />
     #+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style2.css" />

   To just turn off the default style, customize
   ‘org-html-head-include-default-style’ variable, or use this option
   line in the Org file.

     #+OPTIONS: html-style:nil

The only thing I don't think it does is export the default style as a
separate .css file rather than inline. Maybe there's a use case where
that would be better than turning it off and specifying a linked style,
but I can't really think of one. I suppose one would need a new option
to specify a path for the exported stylesheet, so it wouldn't save a lot
on option lines.

Yours,
Christian