Hello again, okay, I will answer my own post with a possible solution to my feature request earlier today.
Attached is a patch that does the job; whether it is elegant enough or not is another question. I've not addressed the documentation at all yet. I will wait to see what the response to this simple patch might be... Thanks, eric * Allow for a different markup for inactive time stamps on latex export
diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el index 1baa5f9..694f65b 100644 --- a/lisp/org-latex.el +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el @@ -292,6 +292,11 @@ markup defined, the first one in the association list will be used." :group 'org-export-latex :type 'string) +(defcustom org-export-latex-timestamp-inactive-markup "\\textit{%s}" + "A printf format string to be applied to inactive time stamps." + :group 'org-export-latex + :type 'string) + (defcustom org-export-latex-timestamp-keyword-markup "\\texttt{%s}" "A printf format string to be applied to time stamps." :group 'org-export-latex @@ -1613,7 +1618,9 @@ links, keywords, lists, tables, fixed-width" (org-if-unprotected-at (1- (point)) (replace-match (org-export-latex-protect-string - (format org-export-latex-timestamp-markup + (format (if (string= "<" (substring (match-string 0) 0 1)) + org-export-latex-timestamp-markup + org-export-latex-timestamp-inactive-markup) (substring (org-translate-time (match-string 0)) 1 -1))) t t)))))
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