Re: publishing a drawer

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

On 11/3/10 12:48 PM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to publish drawer's content during export (both HTML and
> LaTeX)? I am creating a presentation with S5 and I'd love to have
> :LOGBOOK: (or :NOTES:) published as<div class="notes"></div>  (or
> \note{} for Beamer).
>

The following ought to work, but doesn't for Latex. Code improvements 
welcome.

* Set option to include drawers in export

: #+OPTIONS: d:t

For some reason, this doesn't work for me with Latex export. I've 
filed a bug report.

* Customize drawer export

Make org-export-format-drawer-function point to a custom function, 
e.g. like this for your exact case (improvements welcome):

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
   (defun my-org-export-format-drawer (name content backend)
     "Export :NOTES: and :LOGBOOK: drawers to HTML class
   or LaTeX command"
     (cond
      ((string-match "NOTES\\|LOGBOOK" name)
       (cond
        ((eq backend 'html)
         (format "@<div class=\"notes\"> %s @</div>" content))
        ((eq backend 'latex)   ; FIXME: This doesn't work
         (format "#+BEGIN_LATEX:\n\note{%s}\n#+END_LATEX " content))
        (t nil)))
      (t nil)))

   (setq org-export-format-drawer-function 'my-org-export-format-drawer)
#+end_src

* Style the HTML `notes' class as you want it

e.g. with

: #+STYLE: <style>.notes {color: grey; margin-bottom: 1em} 
.notes:before {content: "Notes: "; font-weight: bold}</style>

* Options

You can add more conditional clauses for other drawers you want styled 
a different way.

The function could be written more simply if you simply want all your 
drawers exported with the drawer name as HTML class/LaTeX command.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
   (defun my-org-export-format-drawer (name content backend)
     "Export drawers to HTML class or LaTeX command with same name"
     (setq name (downcase name))
     (cond
      ((eq backend 'html)
       (format "@<div class=\"%s\"> %s @</div>" name content))
      ((eq backend 'latex)   ; FIXME: This doesn't work
       (format "#+BEGIN_LATEX:\n\%s{%s}\n#+END_LATEX " name content))
      (t nil)))
#+end_src

...and if you're using org-special-blocks, you can do the same simply 
with:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
   (defun my-org-export-format-drawer (name content backend)
     "Export drawers to HTML class or LaTeX command with same name"
     (setq name (downcase name))
     (format "#+BEGIN_%s\n%s\n#+END_%s" name content name))
#+end_src

Let me know how it turns out. It's an interesting alternative route to 
extensible block-level markup.

HTH,
Christian