Converting to html in a shell script

Converting to html in a shell script

[lanas]

Hi all,

  I would like to convert an org file to HTML, much like C-c C-e h
would do, automatically from a shell script.  So far I've tried
unsuccesfully some permutaions of:

emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html "./file.org")'
emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html)' ./file.org

  Is it at all possible and if so, what would be the actual way of
calling emacs to do this ?

Thanks,

Al

Re: Converting to html in a shell script

[Bastien Guerry]

lanas <lanas@securenet.net> writes:

>   I would like to convert an org file to HTML, much like C-c C-e h
> would do, automatically from a shell script.  So far I've tried
> unsuccesfully some permutaions of:
>
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html "./file.org")'
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html)' ./file.org

The function `org-export-as-html' doesn't take the file as an argument,
it has to be called in the buffer where a file has been found.

Look at the script for example:

#!/bin/bash

emacs -batch -eval \
"(progn (load-file \"~/org-mode/org.el\") \
        (load-file \"~/elisp/config/org-batch-config.el\") \
        (find-file \"~/yourfile.org\") \
        (org-export-as-html 3))"

I use org-batch-config.el because obviously I don't need to load all my
Emacs config for running this script.  

But I think it's cleaner to define projects with org-publish and then to
publish a project like:

emacs -batch -eval "(progn (load \"~/org-mode/org.el\") \
                           (org-publish \"myproject\"))"

HTH,

-- 
Bastien

Re: Converting to html in a shell script

[Michael Hohn]

lanas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I would like to convert an org file to HTML, much like C-c C-e h
> would do, automatically from a shell script.  So far I've tried
> unsuccesfully some permutaions of:
>
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html "./file.org")'
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-as-html)' ./file.org
>
>   Is it at all possible and if so, what would be the actual way of
> calling emacs to do this ?
>
>   

I use a makefile entry

%.html: %.org org-export-cust.el
    emacs --batch -q $< -l ./org-export-cust.el
    tidy -i -m $@


together with this org-export-cust.el script:

;; Batch script to convert %.org to %.html, with external style sheet
;; and other options.
;;
;; Used via     emacs --batch -q $< -l ./org-export-cust.el
;;
(load-library "~/emacs/lisp/org.elc")

(setq org-export-html-style
      "<link rel=stylesheet href=\"l3style.css\" type=\"text/css\">")

(org-export-as-html 3 'hidden)

-- Michael