Re: [O] templating with Org?

[John Kitchin]

In reviewing these, I discovered I reinvented (and probably not as
well!) the function s-format from s.el
(https://github.com/magnars/s.el). It might be another option for you.


Eric Abrahamsen writes:

> John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't have the impression you would need to hijack the export
>> process. It seems like you would need to call a function that gets
>> data from some source (e.g the org document) and then populates a
>> template with that data, and once that is done, call a regular export
>> function. There are a number of template solutions:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryTemplates. I am not sure these
>> are too easy to adapt to what you describe.
>
> That's an interesting idea: going from the base Org file to a massaged
> Org buffer, and then exporting that. I'll try that out for a bit. Thanks
> for that, and for the links!
>
>> I played around with some ideas for this here:
>>
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/01/20/Alternatives-to-long-complex-format-statements-in-emacs-lisp/
>>
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/01/26/Another-alternative-to-string-templates/
>>
>>
>> Something like these could be used to populate a template I think.
>>
>> John
>>
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>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Exporting org files and subtrees is awfully flexible, given all
>>     the
>>     possible customizations, but for a long while I've occasionally
>>     felt the
>>     need to come at the "export" process from the other direction:
>>     instead
>>     of customizing the export appearance of a series of headings,
>>     instead
>>     starting with a common block of export text, and interpolating
>>     values
>>     from the headings into that text -- ie, templating.
>>
>>     I've felt this need off and on for a couple of years, most
>>     recently when
>>     organizing a small literary festival. I really need to keep all
>>     the
>>     information about the events in a single place, otherwise I know
>>     that
>>     information will go stale right away. But I need the information
>>     in a
>>     series of such wildly-varying formats that I can't imagine setting
>>     up
>>     (and switching between) export filters in a way that wouldn't make
>>     me
>>     cry. Not to mention that the different "export" use-cases all have
>>     their
>>     own per-heading boilerplate text, and there's no way I'm going to
>>     repeat
>>     all that different boilerplate under each heading.
>>
>>     Obviously there's many ways this could be done. I could somehow
>>     hijack
>>     the export process -- in many cases it would be nice too make use
>>     of the
>>     skeleton document structures that export provides.
>>
>>     Or maybe dynamic blocks? I've never used them before. Or maybe
>>     just a
>>     plain old `org-map-entries', which reads the template text from an
>>     external file and then steals some of the macro expansion
>>     functions to
>>     fill out the values.
>>
>>     Has anyone wanted to do this before? Has anyone actually done it?
>>     Any
>>     thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
>>
>>     Yours,
>>     Eric

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