Re: File local setting for export directory?

[Loris Bennett]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to export an org file to a pdf and have the pdf created in
>>>>> subdirectory relative to the org file.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the simplest way to set the export directory in a file local way?
>>>>
>>>> I suggested the attached diff a while ago, but no one seemed very
>>>> interested. I think it might already do what you want.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lisp/ox.el b/lisp/ox.el
>>>> index 9cf62078a..77cafb20d 100644
>>>> --- a/lisp/ox.el
>>>> +++ b/lisp/ox.el
>>>> @@ -6417,6 +6417,20 @@ Return file name as a string."
>>>>          "Output file: " pub-dir nil nil nil
>>>>          (lambda (n) (string= extension (file-name-extension n t))))))
>>>>       extension))
>>>> +   (pub-dir (or pub-dir
>>>> +                (and subtreep (org-entry-get
>>>> +                               nil "EXPORT_PUB_DIR" 'selective))
>>>> +                (org-with-point-at (point-min)
>>>> +                  (catch :found
>>>> +                    (let ((case-fold-search t))
>>>> +                      (while (re-search-forward
>>>> +                              "^[ \t]*#\\+EXPORT_PUB_DIR:[ \t]+\\S-"
>>>> +                              nil t)
>>>> +                        (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
>>>> +                          (when (eq 'keyword (org-element-type element))
>>>> +                            (throw :found
>>>> +                                   (org-element-property
>>>> +                                    :value element))))))))))
>>>>     (output-file
>>>>      ;; Build file name.  Enforce EXTENSION over whatever user
>>>>      ;; may have come up with.  PUB-DIR, if defined, always has
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch - it is exactly what I needed.
>>>
>>> I'm surprised no-one was interested, although I suppose back then I was
>>> probably also one of the uninterested :-)
>>
>> Oh I'm not blaming anyone! There are a lot of patches coming down here,
>> and a lot of ideas for Org, and it's hard to keep up. I don't think I
>> did a very good job of stating my case, either.
>>
>> I actually hadn't thought of how the latex process might go haywire with
>> an absolute export file name. My motivation was simply that "next to my
>> *.org" files is pretty much never where I want exported files to end up.
>> I want to send them to ~/tmp, or to a directory that's shared with
>> colleagues via syncthing. In fact what I really want is to export to the
>> value of ATTACH_DIR, because then I can immediately use all the attach
>> tools on the exported files.
>>
>> Latex compilation is a nice additional argument, though!
>
> It's a month later and, having updated Org in the meantime, I'm having
> to patch again.  
>
> What would be the way forward in terms of getting the patch into Org?

I can't find any response to this question from 1st September 2020.  I
am still interested in having this in Org and would be willing to offer
my extremely modest Elisp skills and moderately modest Git skills to
help move this along, assuming it gets enough thumbs up.

To recap:

Eric's patch allows one to define a subdirectory into which a file
generated by exporting will be written, e.g.

  #+EXPORT_PUB_DIR: ./export

This has worked well for me for exporting to PDF

Cheers,

Loris

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