For what it's worth, I forgot to attach one of the files.  In case this is
of interest to others, it is attached herewith.

All I really need to know is how to export ONLY the headlines that are
returned by an agenda "occur" search (C-a / ) as a PDF.

With apologies.

Alan

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> 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?
>    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.
>
>    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
>
>