[Exporter] Keep formatting or non-org comment-section when exporting?

[Exporter] Keep formatting or non-org comment-section when exporting?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Hi Nicolas, 

is there any way to make the exporter recognize non-org comment-syntax
in an org-buffer?

When writing emails with outorg, I often have these message-mode quotes
in the outorg-edit-buffer which have outcommented multiple times and
therefore remain as message-mode comments). They do not cause any
problems for editing, since outorg/org-mode treats them like normal
text, but formatting is lost when exporting:

,----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
| >
| >> I like to use rebox2 and put boxes in emails and source-file
| >> comment-sections, but when I use outorg on such an message-mode or elisp
| >> buffer and try to export it, I always get 'Args out of range' errors:
| >
| > The following line
| >
| >  | org-element--parse-objects: Args out of range: 315, 316
| >
| > is a table row in Org syntax, so it will not be exported as you expect
| > it to. However, it shouldn't return an error. I fixed it.
| >
| > Thank you for your report.
`----------------------------------------------------------------------------

becomes:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results value replace
(org-export-as 'ascii)
#+end_src

#+results:
,------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                            _________________
| 
|                             Thorsten Jolitz
|                            _________________
| 
| 
| 1 --text follows this line--
| ============================
| 
|   Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
| 
|   > Hello, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes: > I like to use
|   >rebox2 and put boxes in emails and source-file > comment-sections,
|   >but when I use outorg on such an message-mode or elisp > buffer and
|   >try to export it, I always get 'Args out of range' errors: The
|   >following line | org-element--parse-objects: Args out of range: 315,
|   >316 is a table row in Org syntax, so it will not be exported as you
|   >expect it to. However, it shouldn't return an error. I fixed it.
|   >Thank you for your report.
`------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a pity, would be nice if these quoted section could be wrapped
in a verbatim-type block so that exporting them gives a nice result. 

The same thing happens when I use outorg with e.g. emacs-lisp or
picolisp. Section that are outcommented twice or more like

 ,-----------
 | ;; ;; Comment
 | ;; ;; part
 `-----------

are seen in the outorg-edit-buffer like 

 ,-----------
 | ;; Comment
 | ;; part
 `-----------

and lose their formatting when exported.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: [Exporter] Keep formatting or non-org comment-section when exporting?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> is there any way to make the exporter recognize non-org comment-syntax
> in an org-buffer?

You could write a filter to wrap these lines within verbatim blocks.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou