[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: muse comments?

[John Wiegley]

TC <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. I set up a project according to your example in the README,
> specifying a publishing directory for both html and pdf styles.  But
> when I then run muse-publish-this-file and specify the style, it
> still asks me where I want to publish to, and the default offered is
> my source directory, not the publish directory I gave in my .emacs.
> Is that correct?

Use `muse-project-publish'.  muse-publish-this-file ignores the
project settings.

> 2.If the "Publish with style:" question is answered with a null
> (just a <CR>), the fact that the "Publish to directory" question is
> then presented seems to imply that the null style was accepted.  But
> in fact, nothing *is* published.  Would it be an idea either to
> refuse to accept a null, or to offer a default?

That is a bug!

> 3. An attempt to publish a modified buffer sees the modifications
> silently ignored.  emacs-wiki use leads me to expect to at least be
> offered the chance to save the buffer first, and either way to have
> whatever function I'm running operate on the modified buffer
> contents, not on the disk copy.  Dunno if there's anything
> fundamentally right about the emacs-wiki approach, but I *think*
> it's better.

Hmm.. for project publishing it will ask, but not for standalone
files.  This sounds like a bug too.

> 3. Is there a "muse-publish-all-files-in-this-project" function?

`muse-project-publish'.

> 4. README.html doesn't appear to be handling some of the tags in the
> source correctly.  For example, in the "Embedded lisp" part of the
> "Markup rules" section, you have:
>
> "Arbitrary kinds of markup can be achieved using the `<lisp>' tag,..."
>
> The "<lisp>" shows up in plaintext and in the .info, but not in the
> .html

Could you clarify "shows up"?

Thanks!
  John