Re: Selective Export Question

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
Cc: org-mode emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Selective Export Question
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:20:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73AED298-3401-48FC-B38E-0085B6E4FC2D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B30662A.4010302@comcast.net>

On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Mark Elston wrote:

> I have been making progress on my use of org-mode to manage both
> my teaching notes and handouts in a single document.  However, there
> is something I still have not been able to make happen.  That is
> selective exporting of text *without* exporting a headline along with
> it.
>
> Here is a sample of what I would like.  In this example I have  
> sections
> with "common" text (should be in both teaching notes and handouts) and
> sections that are specific to each individual output format.  What I
> have below is set up to export the notes.  What I would like is to
> have the text (only) of the non-excluded sections and not the  
> headlines.

Hi Mark,

I think the right path for this is a function that you write and install
in org-export-preprocess-hook.  Then you can set your own conditions and
remove those headlines before Org even tries to look at them.

HTH

- Carsten

>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> #+TITLE:     Test
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: ClassNotes
>
> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil H:8 tags:nil
>
> #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: handouts
>
> * Headline 1
>  some text
>
> ** Headline 1-1
>   even more text
>
> * Headline 2
>  some more text
>
> ** Headline 2-1
>   Common text 1.  Should be followed by handout or notes text.
>
> ***** should be handouts only                :handouts:
>      handout text
>
> ***** should be notes only                   :notes:
>      notes text
>
> ** Headline 2-2
>   Common text 2.  Should be followed by handout or notes text.
>
> *****                                        :handouts:
>      handout text again
>
> *****                                        :notes:
>      notes text again
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The relevant material from my org-export-latex-classes is:
>
> ("ClassNotes" "\\documentclass[letter,twoside,openright]{memoir}
> ...
> ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
> ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
> ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
> ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
> ("%% Level 5" . "%% Level 5")
> ("%% Level 6" . "%% Level 6")
> ("%% Level 7" . "%% Level 7")
> ("%% Level 8" . "%% Level 8"))
> ...
>
>
> I was hoping to allow all levels of heading to be exported but only
> write comments for the levels below level 4.  It didn't work out that
> way.
>
> With the above I don't get *any* of the :notes: or :handouts:
> sections written out.  However, if I include empty level three and  
> four
> headlines (the stars followed by a mandatory space) I get the :notes:
> and :handouts: sections just fine.  Except now I also get empty
> \subsection{} and \subsubsection{} blocks in my latex output.  I have
> attached the resulting .tex file with comments pointing out the
> extra heading lines I would like to *not* see...
>
> The net result is a lot of blank space in the resulting .pdf file
> between the 'common' text and the note- or handout-specific text.   
> This
> is *definitely* not what I had in mind.
>
> Is there any way of working around this or correcting this behavior?
>
> Mark
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- Carsten