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Re: [O] inconsistency in backend export functions?


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [O] inconsistency in backend export functions?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:44:14 +0100

Hello,

John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:

> I was playing around with creating a new backend to convert an org-file to
> a json representation, and I came across this apparent inconsistency in the
> backend function signatures.
>
> at http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html it suggests the
> backend transcoding functions should have this signature:
>
> (defun org-backend-xxx (element contents info)
>   code that converts element to a string)
>
> but, that does not work for a plain-text element. Even in ox-latex.el it is
> defined with only two arguments, with no contents.
>
> (defun org-latex-plain-text (text info)
>
> My exporter works when I define it this way too, but it seemed like an odd
> inconsistency to me. Am I missing something in the docs somewhere?

This is documented in `org-export-define-backend' docstring.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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