Re: local variables and export processing in hooks

[tomas]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:13:01AM +0000, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Dear org mode users,
> 
> I have a small elisp function that I use to process my org file before
> export to LaTeX or HTML, adding this function to
> org-export-before-parsing-hook.  Briefly, the function exports the TBLFM
> lines so that the org table calculations can be inspected.  This is for
> pedagogical use.
> 
> This works just fine.  However, I don't want to do this generally so I
> have a variable that controls whether the processing happens or not.  Is
> there some way to make this variable local to an org file for use in the
> export?  I have tried combinations of setq-local and #+BIND: but have
> not yet managed to get this work successfully.

Perhaps a file local variable?

Either in the first line:

  -*- mode: MODENAME; VAR: VALUE; ... -*-

or at the end of the file:

  # Local Variables:
  # mode: org
  # my-var: value
  # End:

(Indentation is for clarity, remove)

Cheers
 - t

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