On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
Hello,
we are currently changing our institute's web site so that staff
members can have a personal page: they can submit Org-mode files
which are then automatically converted to (rather nice) HTML pages.
One advantage is that this allows us to give staff members a lot of
freedom to create content while keeping a "corporate identity" look
(and getting the director's permission in the first place).
Our template needs a macro in the org template to create a more
"fancy" summary of personal information with a table, a portrait and
some icons (aside: please note that you can create really complex
HTML code this way if necessary).
Here is a very simple example:
#+title: test
#+macro: mhead #+html: <table><tr><td> email: $1</td><td> phone: $2</
td></tr></table>
{{{mhead(
someb...@somewhere.org,
1-234-2134
)}}}
Imagine more lines (job description, fax, homepage, etc) and a more
complex table (hidden in a setup file). Having users provide
information in this way is not ideal, but has worked surprisingly
well (the rest of the template is "proper" Org-mode content).
When creating the Org templates we ran into these problems with Org-
mode 7.01 and Emacs 23.2.1:
(1) How can we escape "," in the macro call? Ideally, we would need
something like this:
{{{mhead(
one entry\, still the same entry,
the second variable...
This should work - there was a bug, fixed now.
(2) It would be nice to use something like this:
{{{mhead(
# Email
someb...@somewhere.org,
# Phone
1-234-2134
)}}}
However, the "#" lines are currently not ignored (as comments) when
expanding the macro, these kind of comment lines would be helpful
when providing templates in general.
Not implemented yet...
- Carsten
(3) if, in the above example, we delete the #+title line before the
macro definition, that macro stops working (the macro definition is
not interpreted as such). It seems there must be at least one line
with arbitraty contents before the macro definition (bug?).
I think, that (1) (maybe it is already possible - apologies if I
overlooked something) and (2) would be useful features in Org-mode.
Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
Warm regards,
Stefan
--
Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298
Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279
Email: voll...@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de
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- Carsten
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