In Emacs `org-mode’, if you put “#OPTIONS: num:t” at the top of a file, the
document that is exported will contain section numbers. However, with the same
settings, blogs that are generated by `org2blog’ (version: punchagan commit
387217f792) will not have the same effect.
I have opened an issue on github. But there has been no reply, this is quite a
common problem for free software projects. Therefore, I did a hack in
`org2blog’ to solve the problem myself.
The effect I want is, text in `org-mode’ like this:
#+BEGIN_SRC Language
1 Hello
1.1 World
1.2 Emacs
#+END_SRC
Which once exported, becomes:
1 Hello
1.1 World
1.2 Emacs
2 Locate the bug
I don’t have much experience in Elisp except for configuring Emacs, so I spent
some time on locating the bug.
This is how I found the bug. I followed the code flow and printed out the
values of variables. Finally, the bug turned out to be nothing to do with
`org2blog’ – It was located in the `org-mode’ instead.
Function `org2blog/wp-post-buffer’ calls function `org2blog/wp-parse-entry’ to
translate `org-mode’ contents into HTML for publishing.
And in function `org2blog/wp-parse-entry’, `org-export-as-html’ is called to
do the translating job.
I found that before `org-export-as-html’, everything was fine. However, after
the contents are processed by `org-export-as-html’, the section number
information disappeared. So clearly there is a bug in `org-mode’
(`org-export-as-html’ is a function of `org-mode’).
Then I typed in “C-h f RET org-export-as-html” to read the document of
`org-export-as-html’:
org-export-as-html is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `org-html.el'. (org-export-as-html ARG &optional EXT-PLIST TO-BUFFER BODY-ONLY PUB-DIR) Export the outline as a pretty HTML file. ... ... ... When BODY-ONLY is set, don't produce the file header and footer, simply return the content of <body>...</body>, without even the body tags themselves. When PUB-DIR is set, use this as the publishing directory.
When `org2blog’ calls `org-export-as-html’, the argument `BODY-ONLY’ it passes
in is `t’, so it will only return the contents between <body>
and </body>
,
but not the whole HTML page.
By trial and error, I found that if I pass `nil’ as the value of `BODY-ONLY’
to function `org-export-as-html’, the returned HTML page will contain section
numbers, but if I pass `t’ to it, no section numbers are generated.
Note: by going through this process, I became familiar with edebug – the
source-level debugger for Elisp programs.
3 Solve the problem
`org-mode’ is much bigger than `org2blog’, and according to my prior
experience, the code of `org-mode’ is dirty, complicated and sparsely
commented. Therefore, I decided to do some modifications to `org2blog’ to
solve this problem.
My idea is to export the `org-mode’ file to a whole HTML page and then
retrieve the part I need, since `org-export-as-html’ works well when `nil’ is
passed in as `BODY-ONLY’.
Write a function to get the contents between <body>
and </body>
:
(defun org2blog/wp-retrieve-html-body (html-text) "Retrieve the content between <body> and </body> from the HTML string generated by org-export-as-html" (substring html-text (string-match "<body>" html-text) (string-match "</body>" html-text)))
Then modify `org2blog/wp-parse-entry’ to make it to call the function above.
(setq html-text ;;Starting with org-mode 7.9.3, org-export-as-html ;;takes 4 optional args instead of 5. (condition-case nil (org2blog/wp-retrieve-html-body (org-export-as-html nil nil nil 'string nil nil)) (wrong-number-of-arguments (org2blog/wp-retrieve-html-body (org-export-as-html nil nil 'string nil nil)))))
Evaluate `org2blog/wp-retrieve-html-body’ and `org2blog/wp-parse-entry’ by
pressing “M-x eval-defun RET” in their definitions. `org-mode’ files with
“num:t” should now be able to be exported to blogs with section numbers.
4 (possible) Better approaches
There are a few problems with my solution:
- This problem is caused by a bug of `org-mode’, so the problem should be
fixed in `org-mode’ instead of the innocent `org2blog’. - There are potential risks with using `string-match’ in this case: a
generated blog might be shortened if its `org-mode’ file contains
</body>
. The safest way is parsing the whole HTML page before processing
its contents.
Actually, the best way is reporting this bug to `org-mode’ development mailing
list, or fixing the bug and sending them a patch. But I’m too lazy to do so
seeing as my dirty solution works.
5 Get my code
You can clone from my `org2blog’ fork:
$ git clone git@github.com:RenWenshan/org2blog.git
Alternatively, you can add a new upstream to your existing git repository,
then pull from it, please see the git manual for details :).
You can also download my `org2blog.el’ and replace your own with mine:
https://raw.github.com/RenWenshan/org2blog/master/org2blog.el
Happy Hacking!
Note: English is not my first language, so please feel free to point out any
mistakes you might find.
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