Re: org-html link building diff

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:13 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:
>
>> I've refactored `org-export-as-html', factored code to build links
>> into `org-html-make-link'.
>>
>> This does two things that I needed:
>>
>> * It allows custom link types to build anchors.
>>   * How: Call org-html-make-link.  Many parameters, see the function
>>     docstring.  It returns a string containing an HTML link.
>> * It adds the capability to convert links when exporting.
>>   * How: Around the export call, bind org-html-cvt-link-fn to a
>>     function that takes 1 parameter (filename) and returns a url as a
>>     string.
>>
>> I think it also makes the code cleaner.
>
> I am sure it does - the export function has grown like cancer in the run of
> years.
> Unfortunately, I right now do not have the time to study this carefully enough
> to make sure this does not break anything.
>
> Tom, maybe you can update the patch to the current master.
>
> Are there any volunteers who can put this patch through the mill?  Or Tom, maybe
> you first want to implement the other stuff you are thinking about?


Tom and Carsten,


here's a volunteer for testing it. I've been looking in this export
and publishing stuff frequently lately, and a clean-up would be great.


  Sebastian