Re: Obscure Bug with HTML Export if Directory Starts with an Underscore

[Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>]

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> thank you for your report.
> 
> This has nothing to do with the directory starting with an underscore.
> What is happening here is that Org-mode uses the first line in the buffer,
> "-----" in your case as the title of the document since no other title
> is defined.  Of course, the body-only export then discards the "title",
> and you end up without your first line.
> 
> You could fix this with a dummy #+TITLE: line, or by putting anything at 
> all
> in a earlier line, even above #+STARTUP, or by setting the :title option
> in your publishing setup.
> 
> Another way would be
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #+STARTUP: showall indent
> #+STARTUP: hidestars
> #+OPTIONS: H:2 num:nil tags:nil toc:1 timestamps:t
> #+TITLE: ADSL Connection Problems.
> #+BEGIN_HTML
> ---
> layout: post
> title: {{{title}}}
> tags: [gadgets, linux, test]
> excerpt: Problems, problems!
> ---
> #+END_HTML
> Main text of post goes here.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> i.e using the {{{title}}} macro to insert the title into the right
> place while having #+TITLE around to stop Org from grabbing
> the first line.
> 
> One could also question if it makes sense to grab the title from
> the buffer if body-only is set, and I have now changed it so
> that in this case it will *not* take the title from buffer text.
> 
Thanks for the explanation and list of fixes.

> Hope something here will help you - these are murky waters.
> 
It's a good job that you have X-ray vision:)

Ian.