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Re: [O] [PATCH] ox-koma-letter.el: Add support for 'location' koma varia


From: Myles English
Subject: Re: [O] [PATCH] ox-koma-letter.el: Add support for 'location' koma variable
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:08:10 +0000
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.15; emacs 24.5.1

Rasmus,

Rasmus writes:

> I’m arguing for a solution that supports BOTH "one-off" and permanent
> data.

OK, sorry, I thought you were arguing for a heading tagged :location:
and against an option #+LOCATION or property :EXPORT_LOCATION:.  How
about applying my patch please and the tagged heading can be developed
by someone™ 'later'.

> The keyword is convenient when you want to insert a pointer to field.  I
>
> But for a one-off letter where I might need to include "one-off" details
> on the left, I’d rather type:
>
>     * bank details :location:
>       Acc. No.: 1234567890
>       at Big Bank
>       Sort Code: 11-22-33
>
> Than
>
>     #+latex_header: \setkomavar{frombank}{\raggedright 
> Acc.~No.:\,1234567890\\at Big Bank\\Sort Code: 11-22-33}
>     #+Location: \usekomavar{frombank}
>
> To me the former reads much easier and hides away the technical details.
> Thus, I wish to see to see support for entry forms.

Alright, I get the general idea but in that specific case this would be
simpler:

#+LOCATION: \raggedright Acc.~No.:\,1234567890\\at Big Bank\\Sort Code: 11-22-33

Myles



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