org-mode INCLUDE ignored

[b3]

When converting from org-mode included files (as specified by #+INCLUDE: directives) are just ignored.

For instance the following main.org file :

#+include: "sub1.org"
#+include: "sub2.org"

with sub1.org listed as :

text from sub1

and sub2.org listed as

text from sub2

should be translated by pandoc -t org -f markdown -o main.md main.org to

text from sub1
text from sub2

but is translated instead to a file containing just a newline character.

[tarleb]

This should probably be implemented analogous to the file include mechanism of the LaTeX writer. I haven't used the new PandocMonad yet; would it make sense to generalize the existing insertIncludedFile such that it becomes usable with the Org parser state? @jgm @jkr

[jgm]

+++ Albert Krewinkel [Mar 16 17 11:01 ]:

This should probably be implemented analogous to the file include mechanism of the LaTeX writer. I haven't used the new PandocMonad yet; would it make sense to generalize the existing insertIncludedFile such that it becomes usable with the Org parser state? ***@***.*** ***@***.***

Yes, we could do that. What it would take would be adding a new typeclass to Text.Pandoc.Parser, HasContainers (or something -- that's not the most descriptive name). Instances could then be defined for ParserState and for org's ParserState, and we could generalize the function using the typeclass. If you'd like to do this, go ahead. It's precisely analogous to what we've done with HasMacros, etc. Of course, it's possible that when you look into the details of org includes, you'll decide that you need your own function. In the RST reader we couldn't reuse insertIncludedFile, because RST's include mechanisms include options for a line number range and other things. So we have a bit of code duplication there.

[phmarek]

Would you please include that in the next release? The last one is from February, and I'm not sure about the release plans for 2.0...

This feature would help tremendously in creating and updating nearly-identical files.

[tarleb]

The new version (pandoc 2.0) is probably going to be released sometime next month. You could try the latest inofficial nightly build if you don't want to wait.