Re: [O] help with custom exporter

[Stephen J. Barr]

Thank you for the help. I think I can start hacking something together now that will do what I want it to do.

Stephen J. Barr

PhD Student, Operations Management

Dept: Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM)

Michael G. Foster School of Business

University of Washington

Phone:  425 516 5012

Email: address@hidden

Twitter: @stevejb

Website: http://steve.planetbarr.com

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

"Stephen J. Barr" <address@hidden> writes:

> I am trying to modify ox-md.el. I do not know too much emacs lisp so please
> bear with me.
>
> Hypothetically, if I want to modify the exporter to add a "THIS DOCUMENT
> BY: " at the beginning, could I do:
>
> (defun org-md-template (contents info)
>   "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion.
> CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string.  INFO is a plist used
> as a communication channel."
>   (concat "THIS DOCUMENT BY: " (plist-get info :author) "\n" contents)
> )
>
>
> However, I get an error:
>
> org-md-template: Wrong type argument: characterp, #("Stephen
>
> What is the output type of plist-get? Not a string?

:author contains a secondary string. You need to turn it into the string
with, e.g., `org-export-data'.

Regards,

--
Nicolas Goaziou