How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs

How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs

[Miguel Telleria de Esteban]

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Dear list,

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.

	Miguel



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Re: How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs

[Russell Adams]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Miguel Telleria de Esteban wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> 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.
>
> 	Miguel

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.

Makefile:
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.PHONY: all clean

OBJS := $(patsubst %.org, %.pdf, $(wildcard *.org))

CRAP := $(patsubst %.org, %.pdf, $(wildcard *.org))
CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.aux, $(wildcard *.org))
CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.log, $(wildcard *.org))
CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.out, $(wildcard *.org))
CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.toc, $(wildcard *.org))

all: $(OBJS)

clean:
	rm -f $(CRAP)

%.tex: %.org
	emacs -batch \
		-load ~/.emacs \
		--eval '(setq enable-local-variables :all)' \
		--visit=$< \
		-f org-export-as-latex \

%.pdf: %.tex
	pdflatex "\\def\\Revision {`bzr version-info --custom --template=\"{revno}\" $<`}" "\\input{$<}"
	pdflatex "\\def\\Revision {`bzr version-info --custom --template=\"{revno}\" $<`}" "\\input{$<}"
	xpdf $@
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Re: How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs

[Miguel Telleria de Esteban]

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Thanks Russel, this is exactly what I was looking for!!

	Miguel

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:01:24 -0500 Russell Adams wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Miguel Telleria de Esteban
> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 	Miguel
> 
> 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.
> 
> Makefile:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> .PHONY: all clean
> 
> OBJS := $(patsubst %.org, %.pdf, $(wildcard *.org))
> 
> CRAP := $(patsubst %.org, %.pdf, $(wildcard *.org))
> CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.aux, $(wildcard *.org))
> CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.log, $(wildcard *.org))
> CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.out, $(wildcard *.org))
> CRAP += $(patsubst %.org, %.toc, $(wildcard *.org))
> 
> all: $(OBJS)
> 
> clean:
> 	rm -f $(CRAP)
> 
> %.tex: %.org
> 	emacs -batch \
> 		-load ~/.emacs \
> 		--eval '(setq enable-local-variables :all)' \
> 		--visit=$< \
> 		-f org-export-as-latex \
> 
> %.pdf: %.tex
> 	pdflatex "\\def\\Revision {`bzr version-info --custom
> --template=\"{revno}\" $<`}" "\\input{$<}" pdflatex "\\def\\Revision
> {`bzr version-info --custom --template=\"{revno}\" $<`}" "\\input{$<}"
> xpdf $@
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Re: How to invoke org-export externally from outside Emacs

[Fabrice Niessen]

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

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