Hi List, for me property-drawers are a very useful feature of Org-mode, since the need to store meta-data for a document is so frequent and property-drawers are human- and machine-readable, easy to handle interactively and programmatically, and avoid all that nasty redundancy and accidental variation of giving meta-data as free text.
However, property-drawers are not exported except separating blank lines. This is a real pity in my eyes, since parts of an Org-mode document that can't be exported are visible only to the author of the document and a few fellows that use the raw Org document too. This might make sense in some cases, but in others the property information should be visible in the exported docs too. I don't really consider the export options (#+TITLE, #+AUTHOR etc) as a replacement for property drawers, in some situations I would like to use property drawers and see them exported. So here is my feature request, at least for the most important backends ASCII, HTML and LATEX: add a function for property drawer export and an export option to turn on/off this export. PS the status-quo of property-drawer export at the moment: 1. backends that (seem to) deal with property drawers: ,--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 3 matches for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-html.el | 83: (property-drawer . org-html-property-drawer) | 2893:(defun org-html-property-drawer (property-drawer contents info) | 2894: "Transcode a PROPERTY-DRAWER element from Org to HTML. | | 3 matches for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-odt.el | 66: (property-drawer . org-odt-property-drawer) | 3017:(defun org-odt-property-drawer (property-drawer contents info) | 3018: "Transcode a PROPERTY-DRAWER element from Org to ODT. | | 1 match for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-org.el | 91: (property-drawer . org-org-identity) | | 3 matches for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-texinfo.el | 96: (property-drawer . org-texinfo-property-drawer) | 1399:(defun org-texinfo-property-drawer (property-drawer contents info) | 1400: "Transcode a PROPERTY-DRAWER element from Org to Texinfo. `--------------------------------------------------------------------------- but in all cases (except ox-org.el) the function looks like this: ,--------------------------------------------------------------------- | (defun org-html-property-drawer (property-drawer contents info) | "Transcode a PROPERTY-DRAWER element from Org to HTML. | CONTENTS is nil. INFO is a plist holding contextual | information." | ;; The property drawer isn't exported but we want separating blank | ;; lines nonetheless. | "") `--------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. backends that don't (really) deal with property drawers: ,--------------------------------------------------------- | 1 match for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-man.el | 83: (property-drawer . (lambda (&rest args) "")) | | 1 match for "property-drawer" in buffer: ox-latex.el | 70: (property-drawer . (lambda (&rest args) "")) | | ox-ascii.el: not found | ox-icalendar.el: not found | ox-md.el: not found `--------------------------------------------------------- -- cheers, Thorsten
