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

From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Request for guidance: Export ONLY headlines matching occur search?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:52:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bef1f890912211552s4b6b0caah5c0b9de273dddc1f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890912211539n961c4aev1687129f59b14c75@mail.gmail.com>

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Another error, this time to the memo generating remember template.  With yet
another apology:

         ("Memo"       ?Z "%[~/org/MEMO/Top.2.memo]  %?    \n %i  %&
%[~/org/MEMO/Bot.memo]"
                       "~/org/MEMO/Memo.tex" top)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Alan

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>

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