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I'm using a memorandum specific style when I do LaTeX export of an org-mode document. It has some fields that I'd like to specify/fill in in a manner similar to the way AUTHOR, TITLE, DATE are specified.

How do I define new document options?
How can I use them in exported documents?

Right now, I'm focused on LaTeX export, but might also want to do HTML output, in which case I would want to use the new options in a customized postamble.

What I have now:

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil #+AUTHOR: Dave #+TITLE: write_me #+DATE: 22 March 2018 #+LATEX_CLASS: myMemo #+LATEX_HEADER: \memoto{ Alice } * Content blah....

myMemo is a modified version of this memo template. The original style uses some custom macros like memoto and memofrom to setup the To: and From lines in the memorandum. So far, I've modified most of the lines in myMemo.sty so that they use the values defined in the org file:

\begin{description} \ifthenelse{\equal{\@memoto}{\relax}}{}{\item [{To:}] \@memoto} \item [{From:}] \@author \item [{Subject:}] \@title \item [{Date:}] \@date \end{description}

so that the header portion of the memo uses the values defined by #+AUTHOR: ... etc. However, I don't see a good solution for being able to do the same thing for the To: item that doesn't involve defining a new option (so that line is unchanged from the original style file, and it is specified in the org file with at LATEX_HEADER command).

so, it seems to me that I need a new variable in order to be able to specify the other features I'd like to have in the header. I'd like to have something like this:

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil #+AUTHOR: Dave #+RECIPIENT: Alice #+TITLE: write_me #+DATE: 22 March 2018 #+LATEX_CLASS: myMemo # The class file has been modified to make use of the RECIPIENT field # in an appropriate way; for example using a \@recipient macro # whose value is specified via the RECIPIENT line above * Content blah...

How do I do it?

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  • Perthaps a macro? Commented Mar 23, 2018 at 16:55

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There is a pretty complete example of doing this at https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/ox-cmu/ox-cmu-memo.el. The gist is you use the keywords like:

#+FROM: some name, etc #+DEPARTMENT: Good stuff

Then create a custom exporter derived from the backend you want.

(org-export-define-derived-backend 'cmu-memo 'latex :options-alist '((:department "DEPARTMENT" nil "Department of Chemical Engineering") ;; the name is a committee or your name (:fromname "FROMNAME" nil nil) ;; I am leaving out proftitle, location, telephone, email, and zipcode. (:to "TO" nil nil) (:from "FROM" nil nil) (:subject "SUBJECT" nil nil) (:cc "CC" nil "") (:signature-lines "SIGNATURE-LINES" nil t)) :translate-alist '((template . cmu-memo-template)) :menu-entry '(?M "Export with CMU Memo" ((?L "As LaTeX buffer" cmu-memo-export-as-latex) (?l "As LaTeX file" cmu-memo-export-to-latex) (?p "As PDF file" cmu-memo-export-to-pdf) (?o "As PDF file and open" (lambda (a s v b) (if a (cmu-memo-export-to-pdf t s v b) (org-open-file (cmu-memo-export-to-pdf nil s v b))))))))

The :translate-alist defines a function that builds the template, and in this template you can access the file keywords you defined to build up the document. Hopefully this helps.

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