Thanks Ken.
Yes, at first I was trying to accomplish my task with Macros, but after
finding out that I could run the whole Org file through a pre-filter, I
realized that this would be a much cleaner and easier way rather than
having multiple types of macros or code blocks. So now I'm trying to
figure out how to attach an external program to
`org-export-before-parsing-hook' or `org-export-before-processing-hook' to
pipe the entire Org file through...
Josh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Ken Mankoff wrote:
Hi Josh,
On 2019-03-10 at 23:37 +0100, Josh <jnf...@grauman.com> wrote...
I am new to emacs and orgmode. I spent the last couple days reading
most of the docs before diving in,
Welcome!
but I didn't see anywhere how I could have a macro that instead of
replacing the macro with lisp code, calls an external program instead.
Something like:
#+MACRO: func call /home/josh/mybinary $1
{{{func(Text Argument)}}}
and this would be setup to call an external program and the output of
the program would replace the macro on export.
/home/josh/mybinary "Text Argument"
I do wonder if you're asking an XY problem, especially after reading your
follow-up question about running an entire Org file through a pre-filter.
Why does it have to be a macro that you call? Why not #+NAME:'d Babel code
block, which can (presumably) run any program you want.
-k.
