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From: Fabrice Niessen <fni-news-TA4HMoP+1wHrZ44/DZwexQ@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:32:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vbocszo8.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140925090124.GB4563@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com

Russell Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Miguel Telleria de Esteban wrote:
>> I am using org-mode more and more everyday, congrats to the community for
>> such a great program!!
>>
>> I would like to automate the generation of PDF/HTML/ODT... thorough a
>> command line with a makefile.  Something like:
>>
>> file.pdf:  file.org
>> 	<generation_command_here>
>>
>> Is there a way to externally launch, let's say org-latex-export-to-pdf from
>> outside Emacs?.  Maybe through a script.
>>
>> Probably this is more an Emacs-list question than an org-mode one but any
>> suggestion here will be welcome.
>>
>> Cheers and thanks in advance for any suggestion.
>
> I use a Makefile to export to latex, then I use pdflatex to compile
> the final version. Org does the same thing if you ask it to go
> straight to PDF, but this lets me include my revision number.
>
> This also launches my pdf viewer (xpdf), and works for every .org file
> in the directory.

FWIW, I've written small standalone scripts (such as org2pdf, org2html,
org2odt, etc.) to automate such tasks.

If you're interested, have a look at https://github.com/fniessen/orgmk.

Best regards,
Fabrice

-- 
Fabrice Niessen
Leuven, Belgium
http://www.pirilampo.org/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-25 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-25  8:56 How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs Miguel Telleria de Esteban
2014-09-25  9:01 ` Russell Adams
2014-09-25 10:40   ` Miguel Telleria de Esteban
2014-09-25 11:32   ` Fabrice Niessen [this message]

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