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Re: [O] Exporting to multiple files
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: [O] Exporting to multiple files |
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Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:13:53 +0100 |
Dnia 2014-03-13, o godz. 10:38:37
Richard Lawrence <address@hidden> napisaĆ(a):
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > I'd like to export an Org-mode file to /multiple/ HTML files. For
> > instance, I might want to convert all first and second level
> > headings to files, and third-level headings to <h1>, fourth-level
> > ones to <h2> inside these files etc. Is that possible? I looked
> > into the docs, but didn't find anything like this.
>
> I once wrote a function that does something like this. (I haven't
> used it since the pre-8.0 days, though, so it probably needs
> updating.) It creates individual PDFs from the subtrees under a
> headline, then concatenates them into one PDF using an external
> program (pdftk). Naming is done based on the EXPORT_FILE_NAME
> property as usual. Maybe you can use it as a skeleton:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> ;; utilities for exporting the subtrees of a tree as individual PDFS
> ;; and as a single, concatenated PDF
> (defun org-export-individual-pdfs-and-concat ()
> (interactive)
> (setq export-files nil
> pdf-files nil
> ; point must be in main tree to be exported (not a subtree)
> concat-pdf-name (get-property-or-fail (point)
> "CONCATENATED_PDF_NAME")) (progn
> (org-map-entries
> (lambda ()
> (setq org-map-continue-from (outline-next-heading))
> (org-mark-subtree)
> ; org-map-entries positions point at the beginning of each
> subtree (if org-map-continue-from ; non-nil if outline-next-heading
> found a heading (let ((org-trust-scanner-tags t))
> (push (get-property-or-fail (point) "EXPORT_FILE_NAME")
> export-files))) (mapcar 'message (org-get-tags))
> (org-export-as-pdf nil)) ; TODO: why doesn't this respect
> noexport tag? nil 'tree)
> (concat-pdfs (nreverse (mapcar 'tex-name-to-pdf-name
> export-files)) concat-pdf-name)))
>
> (defun get-property-or-fail (pom property)
> (or
> ; probably some opportunity for optimization here...see function
> ; documentation for org-map-entries
> (org-entry-get pom property)
> (error (format "Entry at %s does not define property
> %s" (org-heading-components) property))))
>
> (defun tex-name-to-pdf-name (filename)
> (concat (file-name-sans-extension filename) ".pdf"))
>
> (defun concat-pdfs (in-files out-file)
> (shell-command
> (format "pdftk %s cat output %s"
> (mapconcat (lambda (s) s) in-files " ") ; join pdf names
> with spaces out-file)))
>
> #+END_SRC
>
> Another option that occurs to me -- though it may not serve your needs
> -- is to export your Org file to texinfo format. I believe the
> texinfo compiler can then generate separate separate HTML files for
> the different sections in your .texi file. Might be worth a try.
>
Thanks a lot! Your code seems inspiring - I've only skimmed through it
now, but e.g. the org-map-entries is something very useful I had no
idea existed...
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University