Re: [O] [PATCH] ox-koma-letter.el: Reintroduce variables removed in commit 832c6fd with proper defaults (was Re: [patch] ox-koma-letter.el: clean-up/semantic bug [4/4])

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi Robert,

Robert Klein wrote:

> Hello,
> On 05/25/2013 03:57 PM, Rasmus wrote:
> > Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi Robert,
> >>>
> >>> Robert Klein wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> FWIW, from a users view it would be nice if:
> >>>>
> >>>> - Use Author/Email information from org file
> >>>> - If not present use information from LCO file
> >>>> - if neither org file nor LCO file has any information use
> >>>>   user-full-name and user-email-address
> >>>>
> >>>> Could this be solved by having several e.g. `setkomavar{fromname}'
> >>>> and so on in the tex file, so is created as follows:
> > 
> > I'd go with 'no'.  It's not aesthetically pleasing and I don't want my
> > output to look like LyX.  When feasible we should go for beautiful
> > output.  This isn't always the case at the moment, but still.
> >  
> >>>> if no #+AUTHOR in org-file and user-full-name is set:
> >>>>     add user-full-name
> >>>> if #+LCO(s) in org-file:
> >>>>     add LCO file(s)
> >>>> if #+AUTHOR in org-file:
> >>>>     add \setkomavar{fromname}{#+AUTHOR}
> >>>> ....  same for email
> > 
> > Currently the ordering is: #+AUTHOR > #+LCO and AUTHOR default to
> > (user-full-name).
> 
> hmm, sorry, I did not express myself in a good way.
> 
> what I meant is, if #+AUTHOR defaults to (user-full-name), could the
> \setkomavar commands be placed /before/ \LoadLetterOption in the TeX
> file,  and after \LoadLetterOptions if #+AUTHOR is set in the .org file?
> 
> So you'd still get only one set of \setkomavar in the TeX file, but get
> a (for me) more useful order of #+AUTHOR != (user-full-name) > #+LCO >
> #+AUTHOR == (user-full-name)

I'm still having trouble to understand what would be gained by placing
\setkomavar{author}{.} before \LoadLetterOption if it defaults to
user-full-name. Could you maybe describe your setup and what you want to
achieve? 

Cheers,
Viktor

> 
> 
> Best regards
> Robert
> 
>