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reStructuredText Back-End for Org-Mode Export Engine
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Can ox-rst export arbitrary fields? #31

Closed beetleb closed 7 years ago

beetleb commented 7 years ago

rst supports arbitrary fields (date, author, etc are examples). However, I do not see any way to add arbitrary fields through org mode. It supports some (date, author, etc). But what if I want a field called "Blah"?

My use case is that I'm using ox-rst to export org docs to rst for use in a static site generator. Each post should have a Tags field (think blog posts). Right now I have to hand edit the .rst file that ox-rst produces, which is a pain.

msnoigrs commented 7 years ago

The exporting of 'in-buffer settings' in Org mode need a special kind of handling. In past days, I made ox-nikola (https://github.com/masayuko/ox-nikola) for Nikola blog posts. So we should make ox-pelican derived from ox-rst for pelican blog posts.

msnoigrs commented 7 years ago

There is another solution.

Please try this:

+BEGIN_EXPORT rst

:tags: tag1 tag2 tag3

+END_EXPORT

beetleb commented 7 years ago

Hi,

The EXPORT method solves the problem. Thanks!

As for making an ox-pelican, that may be cool, provided we add a lot more Pelican related features. Otherwise it may be a bit of an overkill...