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[Orgmode] macros: escaping "," and comments
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Stefan Vollmar |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] macros: escaping "," and comments |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:02:09 +0200 |
Hello,
we are currently changing our institute's web site so that staff members can
have a personal page: they can submit Org-mode files which are then
automatically converted to (rather nice) HTML pages. One advantage is that this
allows us to give staff members a lot of freedom to create content while
keeping a "corporate identity" look (and getting the director's permission in
the first place).
Our template needs a macro in the org template to create a more "fancy" summary
of personal information with a table, a portrait and some icons (aside: please
note that you can create really complex HTML code this way if necessary).
Here is a very simple example:
#+title: test
#+macro: mhead #+html: <table><tr><td> email: $1</td><td> phone:
$2</td></tr></table>
{{{mhead(
address@hidden,
1-234-2134
)}}}
Imagine more lines (job description, fax, homepage, etc) and a more complex
table (hidden in a setup file). Having users provide information in this way is
not ideal, but has worked surprisingly well (the rest of the template is
"proper" Org-mode content).
When creating the Org templates we ran into these problems with Org-mode 7.01
and Emacs 23.2.1:
(1) How can we escape "," in the macro call? Ideally, we would need something
like this:
{{{mhead(
one entry\, still the same entry,
the second variable...
(2) It would be nice to use something like this:
{{{mhead(
# Email
address@hidden,
# Phone
1-234-2134
)}}}
However, the "#" lines are currently not ignored (as comments) when expanding
the macro, these kind of comment lines would be helpful when providing
templates in general.
(3) if, in the above example, we delete the #+title line before the macro
definition, that macro stops working (the macro definition is not interpreted
as such). It seems there must be at least one line with arbitraty contents
before the macro definition (bug?).
I think, that (1) (maybe it is already possible - apologies if I overlooked
something) and (2) would be useful features in Org-mode.
Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
Warm regards,
Stefan
--
Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298
Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279
Email: address@hidden http://www.nf.mpg.de
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