Hi Rasmus,

Your patch to fix printing of h1 title when :with-title is nil looks good.

More comments below.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:18 AM Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

Yes, but that’s a feature. It’s how ox-{latex,odt} works as well (via
hyperref).

OK, I agree that the title being made blank not be tied with `:with-title`.

> So I was going to suggest to set title tag to empty string "" or something
> generic like "HTML". I don't think I would use the title:nil option.

You can do this by setting title to an empty quote and Org will export it,
but you produce invalid HTML. It’s actually a bug in ox-html IMO.

Here is my attempt to fix it (below is a whitespace ignored diff):

diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el

index 43e4ef8d48..25a41e1dc4 100644

--- a/lisp/ox-html.el

+++ b/lisp/ox-html.el

@@ -1812,11 +1812,14 @@ INFO is a plist used as a communication channel."

(defun org-html--build-meta-info (info)

"Return meta tags for exported document.

INFO is a plist used as a communication channel."

- (let ((protect-string

+ (let* ((protect-string

(lambda (str)

(replace-regexp-in-string

"\"" """ (org-html-encode-plain-text str))))

(title (org-export-data (plist-get info :title) info))

+ ;; Set title to an invisible character instead of leaving it

+ ;; empty, which is invalid.

+ (title (if (org-string-nw-p title) title "&lrm;"))

(author (and (plist-get info :with-author)

(let ((auth (plist-get info :author)))

(and auth

Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23556255/how-can-i-have-a-blank-title-page#comment67991763_23558385

With above, a "blank" title will also result in a valid HTML, correct?