Re: [O] Bug: Footnotes break iCalendar export [8.0.1 (release_8.0.1 @ /home/rwl/src/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Richard Lawrence]

Hi Bastien,

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Lawrence <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've been trying to get iCalendar export working with my agenda files
>> again since upgrading to 8.0, and I've found that footnotes break the
>> agenda export to .ics.  The problem is that a plain text version of the
>> footnotes in the file ends up in the output "floating loose"---not
>> wrapped by VEVENT tags or any other tags---resulting in an unparseable
>> .ics file (at least according to Google Calendar).
>
> I tried this patch but for some reason it does not work.

This patch does not work for me, either, but thanks for trying!

> I did not look further, surely Nicolas has something that
> works.  I agree footnotes should be turned off by default
> for the .ics export.

I also tried the following modifications in the definition of the
icalendar backend, without much effect:

1) Adding (footnote-definition . ignore) and
(footnote-reference . ignore) to the :translate-alist

2) Adding (:filter-footnote-definition . ignore) and
(:filter-footnote-reference . ignore) to the :filters-alist

Both of these looked like they might work based on the
org-export-define-backend documentation, but the footnotes still show up
in the output.

[...further tinkering...]

It looks like the problem is this: the icalendar backend does not
specify a transcoder for the "inner-template" element.  Thus it falls
back to the org-ascii-inner-template transcoder, which appends footnotes
to the end of the exported content.

Thus, one solution is to define an org-icalendar-inner-template
transcoder which does nothing to modify the content (but overrides the
fallback); that is the solution I've used in the attached patch.

Best,
Richard

ical-inner-template.patch
Description: ignore footnotes in icalendar export