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

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proper way to "link" external files into a project?
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:33:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7C4E28-99EB-4B36-A1D1-5330089DB9CE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871voh3crm.fsf@vir.lan>

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

> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> 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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