I defined a new org-publish-project-alist property: :body-only, the functionality was already in Org. ,----[ example ] | '("test" . (:base-directory "/tmp/" | :base-extension "org" | :publishing-directory "/tmp/1/" | :body-only t ;; <---- | )) `---- Excerpt from the patch: ,---- | When :body-only is set to t, don't produce the file header and footer, | simply publish the content of ..., without even the body | tags themselves. `---- Carsten, please include this if you think it's ok.