RE: attachment: link type export to HTML invalid attach dir

[Gustav Wikström]

Hi Nicolas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden>
> Sent: den 16 januari 2020 14:18
> To: Gustav Wikström <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: attachment: link type export to HTML invalid attach dir
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Gustav Wikström <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Ah yes. Found the culprit for this issue. Hopefully the last one. The
> > exporter doesn't actually move the point in the buffer during the
> > export. So org-attach-expand tried to expand from the first character
> > in the buffer. This should be fixed from a few minutes ago.
> 
> I'm not sure hard-coding attachment links in exporters in the best way
> forward. For example, exporters in the wild may not cope with them before
> a long time, if ever. There is some code duplication, too.

Yes indeed, duplicated functionality for all export backends as it stands.

> 
> If attachments links are similar to file links from an export point of
> view, then I suggest to add a phase in ox.el to expand the former into the
> latter, before even using export back-ends. This way, there is no change
> required in the exporters, shipped in or not.

Yeah, I do think attachment links should be treated as file links when 
exported. And I like this suggestion, although that means I probably have to 
dig into the ox.el code. Not an easy task. I suspect you'd guide me to adding 
logic inside org-export-as for this. I'll have a look starting from there. But 
wouldn't mind some further insights here!

Regards
Gustav

> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou