Re: export to html, colored dates: org-mime export works but org to html does not

[Bruno Barbier]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "BB" == Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> ..
>
>>> (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-plain-text-functions 'my-html-red)
>> ..
>
>>> But if I have 
>>> #<2023-02-11>#
>>> in an org file and export it to html, no color is added to the timestamp.
>>> 
>>> I don't know how to debug this.
>>> 
>>> Any idea?
>
>> In org, "<2023-02-11>" is a date, not plain text. Thus, your function
>> doesn't get called with a text matching your date.
>
>> Note that using macros, you could get almost what you want. 
>
>> #+MACRO: IDATE @@html:<span style="color: red">$1</span>@@
>
>> {{{IDATE(<2023-02-11>)}}}
>
>> And maybe ther is a way to also customize date format to get rid of the
>> brackets.
>
> Thanks, did you test it?
> I am asking because for me


I even did! :-)

You need to call the macro named 'IDATE' like this:

     * Title {{{IDATE(2023-02-11)}}}
     {{{IDATE(2023-02-11)}}}

See:
   (info "(org) Macro Replacement")

And it will work for you too.

Bruno
   

>
> #+LANGUAGE: 
> #+EXPORT_FILE_NAME: /home/oub/Desktop/testdate.html
> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil  
> #+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <style> body {font-size:150%}</style>
> #+MACRO: IDATE @@html:<span style="color: red">$1</span>@@
>
> * Title {{{<2023-02-11>}}}
> {{{(<2023-02-11>)}}}
>
>
> Does not work when exporting to html, and I have recent developer org
> version installed
>
> Uwe 
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