Hello Nicolas, thank you for the clarification and examples, they helped a lot and I got it working as I wanted it.
Regards, Alex Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Alexander Baier <lexi.ba...@gmail.com> writes: > >> i want to export property drawers of an org-file to ASCII. How do I do >> this? I got the impression, that the exporter does not touch the >> properties drawers. So I started to fiddle with the exporter but got no >> satisfying results out of it. > > You can either define a new back-end, as you did, or defadvice the > current one. >> >> This is what i tried so far: >> >> The elisp i wrote in this process: >> =============================================================================== >> (defun org-tut-ascii-translater-property-drawer (drawer backend info) >> (let ((prop (org-element-property :properties drawer))) >> (format "%S" prop))) ;; i just wanted to see, if anything arrives >> here > > There is no `:properties' attribute for property drawers. Also you are > mixing translators and filters: arguments for translators are ELEMENT > CONTENTS INFO. Use, for example: > > (defun my-ascii-property-drawer (drawer contents info) > contents) > > >> (org-export-define-derived-backend 'my-ascii 'ascii >> :translate-alist '((template . >> org-tut-ascii-translater-property-drawer))) > > Replace `template' with `property-drawer'. You also need to define > a translator for `node-property' elements, e.g., > > (defun my-ascii-node-property (node-prop contents info) > (concat (org-element-property :key node-prop) > ": " > (org-element-property :value node-prop))) > > and > > (org-export-define-derived-backend 'my-ascii 'ascii > :translate-alist '((property-drawer . my-ascii-property-drawer) > (node-property . my-ascii-node-property))) > > > Regards,