Re: how to customize date export

[Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I could not figure out how to customize org's export of dates into latex.
> >
> > I found org-export-date-timestamp-format, but that works only for the DATE
> > keyword.  
> >
> > What can work on all date-stamps in the document?
> 
> Have a look at
> 
> ,----[ C-h v org-latex-active-timestamp-format RET ]
> | org-latex-active-timestamp-format is a variable defined in `ox-latex.el'.
> | Its value is "\\textit{%s}"
snip
> 
> and 
> 
> ,----[ C-h v org-latex-inactive-timestamp-format RET ]
> | org-latex-inactive-timestamp-format is a variable defined in `ox-latex.el'.
> | Its value is "\\textit{%s}"
snip
> but these are quite different in intent when compared with
> org-export-date-timestamp-format so they may not be what you want.
> 

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the note.  As it stands now, I cannot
customize these two variables to do what I want, as they accept the
whole time-steamp as argument.  I will enter the dates manually
in the org file for now.

Maybe they ought to be re-cast in manner similar to which
org-export-date-timestamp-format is handled?  A nice weekend project :-)

Mirko