help with custom exporter

help with custom exporter

[Stephen J. Barr]

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Greetings,

I am trying to modify ox-md.el. I do not know too much emacs lisp so please
bear with me.

Hypothetically, if I want to modify the exporter to add a "THIS DOCUMENT
BY: " at the beginning, could I do:

(defun org-md-template (contents info)
  "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion.
CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string.  INFO is a plist used
as a communication channel."
  (concat "THIS DOCUMENT BY: " (plist-get info :author) "\n" contents)
)


However, I get an error:

org-md-template: Wrong type argument: characterp, #("Stephen

What is the output type of plist-get? Not a string?

Thanks,
Stephen


Stephen J. Barr
PhD Student, Operations Management
Dept: Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM)
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Phone:  425 516 5012
Email: stevejb@uw.edu
Twitter: @stevejb
Website: http://steve.planetbarr.com

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Re: help with custom exporter

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

"Stephen J. Barr" <stevejb@uw.edu> writes:

> I am trying to modify ox-md.el. I do not know too much emacs lisp so please
> bear with me.
>
> Hypothetically, if I want to modify the exporter to add a "THIS DOCUMENT
> BY: " at the beginning, could I do:
>
> (defun org-md-template (contents info)
>   "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion.
> CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string.  INFO is a plist used
> as a communication channel."
>   (concat "THIS DOCUMENT BY: " (plist-get info :author) "\n" contents)
> )
>
>
> However, I get an error:
>
> org-md-template: Wrong type argument: characterp, #("Stephen
>
> What is the output type of plist-get? Not a string?

:author contains a secondary string. You need to turn it into the string
with, e.g., `org-export-data'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: help with custom exporter

[Stephen J. Barr]

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Thank you for the help. I think I can start hacking something together now
that will do what I want it to do.



Stephen J. Barr
PhD Student, Operations Management
Dept: Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM)
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Phone:  425 516 5012
Email: stevejb@uw.edu
Twitter: @stevejb
Website: http://steve.planetbarr.com


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Stephen J. Barr" <stevejb@uw.edu> writes:
>
> > I am trying to modify ox-md.el. I do not know too much emacs lisp so
> please
> > bear with me.
> >
> > Hypothetically, if I want to modify the exporter to add a "THIS DOCUMENT
> > BY: " at the beginning, could I do:
> >
> > (defun org-md-template (contents info)
> >   "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion.
> > CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string.  INFO is a plist used
> > as a communication channel."
> >   (concat "THIS DOCUMENT BY: " (plist-get info :author) "\n" contents)
> > )
> >
> >
> > However, I get an error:
> >
> > org-md-template: Wrong type argument: characterp, #("Stephen
> >
> > What is the output type of plist-get? Not a string?
>
> :author contains a secondary string. You need to turn it into the string
> with, e.g., `org-export-data'.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>

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