Re: Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:22:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <055A70D4-7B33-47E9-9D36-67693FAE9B26@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890912210148k3cf03da3i8a1d4291f245f914@mail.gmail.com>

On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

>    I am keeping notes in a single file about several topics.  I can
>    isolate headlines about these topics/products, by an agenda occur
>    search: C-a a / <key phrase> .   I have made a template to print a
>    memo about these products, but it seems I must copy the headlines
>    by hand to a register or file, then massage them into shape.
>
>    I would like to do something like export a PDF of all
>    entries/subtrees within the region that have the product's key
>    phrase in the heading.   Is it possible to selectively export only
>    the subtrees identified by the Occur agenda search, automagically?

No.

What you can do is to make a sparse tree showing only what you want,  
and then export with

   C-c C-e v b

note the "v"...

>    Since my notes start with an inactive time stamp, I would like to
>    strip these out as well.  I think I can easily write an elisp
>    function to do this, but perhaps org-mode already has such
>    capabilities built in, a regexp for an inactive time stamp.

Strangely enough, there is not.  But you can make it with

(concat "\\[" (substring org-ts-regexp 1 -1) "\\]")

HTH

- Carsten

>
>    Perhaps I'll spend some time over Christmas break on this.  It's
>    nice to easily make a memo, but it would be a big help to make it
>    less laborious.
>
>     In case there is interest, here are the template and the fragments
>    for the head and tail of the memo.
>
>    Remember template:
>          ("Memo"       ?Z "%[~/org/MEMO/Top.2.memo]  %?    \n %i   
> %&  %[~/org/MEMO/Bot.memo]"
>                        "~/or/MEMO/Memo.tex" top)
>
>    The required files Top.2.memo and Bot.memo are attached.  Top. 
> 2.memo can be edited with any hard wired recipient and from lines.   
> The class file, also included, is edited to change the header on the  
> memo.  All three must be in the directory ~/org/MEMO.      I am  
> using the sloppy approach of running LaTeX on the long Memo.tex file  
> to which the current memo has been pre-pended.  Only the topmost  
> memo is printed.
>
> This approach works but it is currently a kluge, unpolished. The  
> enhancements I have requested would make it possible to instantly  
> fire off a memo about a specific product.
>
>
>
>
>     Alan Davis
>
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- Carsten