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Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable
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Carsten Dominik |
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Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable |
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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:56:18 +0200 |
On 25.9.2013, at 12:53, Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 3. The only exception to this rule are property drawers, which will
>> currently not be exported by any of the backends. Nicolas
>> proposed to define a derived backend that does export the property
>> drawer, or he proposed to use macros to extract specific properties
>> to include into the exported file. Both are viable options.
>
>> One possible remaining option would be to introduce user variables
>> org-BACKEND-format-property-drawer-function in analogy
>> org-BACKEND-format-drawer-function. This would provide an easy way
>> to configure export of the property drawer as a whole, in a way
>> that could be file-local.
>>
>> I would like to have this option
>
> +1
>
> property drawers are just too useful to restrict them to Org-mode's
> internal meta-data, and anything that makes it easier to export them
> when used for 'use case' related meta-data or as simple DB is welcome.
To be sure: Nicolas' argument that other functions dump data into
the property drawer is completely right, and so I also think that
one would hardly ever want to export the complete drawer. But
through a function that selects (or deselects), it is useful.
- Carsten
>
> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
>
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- Re: [O] [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/09/25
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/26
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/09/26
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/26
- Re: [O] SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/09/26