Re: Questions about splitting a tree into multiple files

[Sébastien Gendre]

Thank you.


Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:
>
>> At first, I create one Org file where each book is a heading of level 1.
>> The title of the heading is the title of the book, the status is a TODO
>> keyword, the properties use Org-mode properties feature. And the notes
>> are simply headings of level 2, where the title of these headings
>> correspond to the chapter of the book.
>> ...
>> Now, after adding a lot of books and notes, the file is too big. I want
>> to split it into multiple files: Each file is a book.
>>
>> But with this, I have multiple problems:
>>
>> A file doesn't have a status. If I want to assign a status, I have to
>> create a heading of level 1 representing the book. But in this case,
>> when I export the file to PDF or HTML, the result doesn't have a title.
>> And instead of having each notes as a level 1 section, I have 1 section
>> of level 1, representing the book, and all the rest are sections of level
>> 2.
>
> Rather than exporting the whole file, you can export subtree. Then, book
> heading title will be used as exported document title.