Re: [O] [org-e-texinfo] generate menu items

[Thomas S. Dye]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>
>> Agreed.  Perhaps a new property, OPTIONAL_TITLE?  The texinfo back-end
>> could use this in menus and the latex back-end could pass it to the
>> sectioning command, e.g., \chapter[optional]{title} (if this isn't
>> already possible).
>
> Back-ends can indeed use specific properties (Beamer back-end does it
> with "BEAMER_ENV" and so on). Though, I suggest to prefix the property
> name with the name of the backend: "TEXINFO_OPTIONAL_TITLE" (perhaps
> a bit verbose).
>
> Then, one can access to it from the headline translator with:
>
>   (org-element-property :texinfo-optional-title headline)
>
> Anyway, Jonathan Leech-Pepin will decide what to do about that.

I looked in org-e-latex.el but didn't find a way to set the optional
argument to a sectioning command.  Is there currently a way to set this
argument? 

All the best,
Tom

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