Re: File-local export filters

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

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On 21.9.2013, at 13:45, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I guess this is mostly a request for Nicolas, but maybe others would
>> like to chime in.
>> 
>> Quite often I am in a situation where I want to use filters
>> to customize the export for a specific file.  I was wondering
>> if it would be useful to support a special source code block
>> that can contain code that should be executed before export in
>> a way that a temporary list of export filters is installed
>> for this specific backend and then removed again.
>> 
>> For example, I would like to have special formatting of
>> time stamps in a specific file - I could then use this
>> to install a filter in org-export-filter-timestamp-functions
>> that would do this special formatting, without influencing
>> what happens to other exports.
>> 
>> Have I overlooked an easy way to do this, or would this be
>> something others would like to use as well.
> 
> I didn't check, but I think it is possible to set filter through #+BIND
> keyword? Otherwise, you can try file local variables.

OK, I'll try this.  However, if the code is a bit more extensive, an SRC block would make it more comfortable to maintain this code inside a file.  If I want to write a somewhat complex filter function, it is not convenient to do so in #+BIND line.

- Carsten

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou


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