Re: [O] Switch for exported file types when evaluating code blocks

[Nick Dokos]

Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello again Malcolm,
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:45:36AM +0000, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
>> 
>> I tend to work with org-export-babel-evaluate set to nil.  Thus, my
>> code blocks are not evaled in the context of an export.  Thus at
>> eval time there is no way of knowing what the eventual backend is
>> going to be.
>> 
>> I think I need an approach that auto converts svg to png 
>> on-demand/on-the-fly during export.
>
> In that case just use another source block with shell source.  In that
> block you can call inkscape to do the conversion.  For an example, see
> here:
> <http://ctan.mirrorcatalogs.com/info/svg-inkscape/InkscapePDFLaTeX.pdf#subsubsection.2.3.1>
>

OT for the OP (say that three times fast!) but maybe of some use to somebody:

For SVG, there is a latex package that is an evolutionary offshoot of
the above link. It does the inkscape dance so you don't have to:

   http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/graphics/svg/

-- 
Nick