Re: [Orgmode] Proper way to "link" external files into a project?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> Sebastian Rose <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'd like to include several files into an org-mode project that live
> > > outside the project tree. I tried to just symlink them into the
> > > appropriate place into my project, and thought that might suffice  
> > > to get
> > > them published correctly, but that doesn't work out, as org-mode  
> > > doesn't
> > > consider the symlink's name, but the "true" filename; for example, I
> > > have this:
> >
> >
> > First of all: How about hardlinks?
> I'd rather not use them in this case.
>
> > Second:
> >
> >  See
> >  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php#sec-7.1
> >
> >  That shows how you can share files between projects, simply by  
> > pulling
> >  them in through a special export  project.
> >  I use this technique a lot. One advantage is that each project has a
> >  complete set of files.
> >  The drawbacks are minor for my use-case, but that might vary. But as
> >  linking was enough, this approach should be fine.
> Thanks! I'm now using this approach, and it works well. The only
> drawback for me is that I have to "pollute" the included projects' org
> files with a line like this:
>
> #+SETUPFILE: ~/.emacs.d/org-templates/level-2.org

IIUC, you don't need to do this.  Since you are only linking to
these files, you can simply define a project component that will
make sure these files will be copied into the correct location.
Then use links with relative path, and this should do the trick.
The level-dependent setupfiles Sebastian describes in his tutorial
are for different purposes.

- Carsten

> Ideally, I'd like to have that information inferred, or at least
> external to the included projects, as they should not have to "know"  
> at
> which location they are used. You don't know about a trick how to get
> around this? I'd also be willing to write some elisp to that end...
>
> Regards, Rotty
> --
> Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
>
>
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