Re: convert region to html?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On May 19, 2007, at 3:17, David O'Toole wrote:

>
> I am working on my blog extension for org-publish. I would like to
> convert a region of text (say, between two markers) from org-mode
> markup into html and then paste the resulting html into another buffer
> where I am building a full page. I need to do this from a lisp
> program. It says that org-export-as-html will export an active region
> but I tried it and it doesn't work in a temp-buffer where
> (buffer-file-name) is nil. Anyway, would it be hard to expose a
> function like the following?
>
> (defun org-export-region-to-html (beg end)
>   "Convert region between BEG and END into HTML, placing the result
>   into a new buffer. The new buffer is returned."


Thanks for this idea, will be useful for many things.

- Carsten

4.75 will contain the following function:

(defun org-export-region-as-html (beg end &optional body-only buffer)
   "Convert region fron BEG to END in org-mode buffer to HTML.
If prefix arg BODY-ONLY is set, omit file header, footer, and table of
contents, and only produce the region of converted text, useful for
cut-and-paste operations.
If BUFFER is a buffer or a string, use/create that buffer as a target
of the converted HTML.  If BUFFER is the symbol `string', return the
produced HTML as a string and leave no buffer behind.  For example,
a Lisp program could call this function in the following way:

   (setq html (org-export-region-as-html beg end t 'string))

When called interactively, the output buffer is selected, and shown
in a window.  A non-interactive call will only retunr the buffer."