Re: [O] new export question: how to add a new option to an existing backend

[Eric Schulte]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Schulte <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'd like to add a new option to the LaTeX backend from a contrib/
>> package so that it can be set with a #+ keyword.  Is this possible?  If
>> so how would one go about making this change.  If not what's the best
>> way to add a new optional value to an existing backend (to be used by a
>> new link exporting function and/or the
>> org-export-before-parsing-hook).
>
> It really depends on what you need. I don't get your example. What would
> that option do?
>
> Anyway, you can use defadvice (see "ox-bibtex.el") to alter the
> behaviour of an existing back-end.
>

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks!  I was not aware that ox-bibtex.el existed, this accomplishes
exactly the use case I had in mind.  I've just pushed up two very small
changes to ox-bibtex.

1. The cite link following function falls back to obe-goto-citation if
   ebib is not fbound, and

2. `org-bibtex-process-bib-files' is only called on HTML export, so
   bibtex2html is not a requirement of ox-bibtex if used for latex
   export only.

Best,

>
>
> Regards,

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