Re: [O] a post-processing export hook?

[John Kitchin]

Rasmus writes:

> John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried using org-export-before-parsing-hook to modify an org-file prior
>> to export to replace some regular expressions with html.
>>
>> I ran into the following issue. For short substitutions,
>> @@html:replacement@@ worked fine. If the replacement text got too long,
>> this broke. I did wrap it in a #+begin_html: block, but that introduced
>> line breaks that were undesireable. The replacement text was long
>> because I had a large tool tip to put on some text.
>>
>> I ended up doing a post-process like this:
>>
>> (with-current-buffer (org-html-export-as-html)
>>   (org-process-key-bindings 'html)
>>   (org-process-emacs-commands 'html)
>>   (write-file "blog.html")
>>   (browse-url "blog.html"))
>>
>> But, I wondered if there should be a post-export hook? I can see some
>> challenge for pdf export, for example. The hook should run after the
>> latex export, not after the pdf is made.
>
> I don't think your example warrant an extra hook.  Replacing strings is
> something that org-export-filter-final-output-functions is perfectly
> capable of doing IMO.  It’s a bit of a hassle to work with transcoded
> strings, but having a hook would not change this.

True enough. I tried it with a paragraph filter and it worked fine. I
didn't know about the org-export-filter-final-output-functions, that is
pretty much the hook I was looking for. Thanks,

>
> Rasmus

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