Aloha Grant, Perhaps a macro? Macro expansion takes place during export.
All the best, Tom Grant Rettke <g...@wisdomandwonder.com> writes: > Hi, > > Today we are working on an org-document that contains a quote that > will re-appear multiple times within > the same document. Coming from LaTeX, my initial reaction is to create > a new command with \newcommand. > Trying to find something like that within org-mode set me down two paths. > > The first was to consider utilize literate programming. This would be > a fine approach if I were publishing the tangled document, but I am > not. Additionally, it is not code, just human readable text (a quote). > > The second thought was to learn about export filters. Stuff like using > \rarr works just fine no matter where you export, so I wondered if I > should follow a similar approach. I didn't pursue this further though, > I wanted to get some feedback first. > > What is the standard approach for doing stuff like this? > > Regards, > > Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi > gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) > “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop > taking it seriously.” --Thompson > > -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
