Re: Questions about splitting a tree into multiple files

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

> At first, I create one Org file where each book is a heading of level 1.
> The title of the heading is the title of the book, the status is a TODO
> keyword, the properties use Org-mode properties feature. And the notes
> are simply headings of level 2, where the title of these headings
> correspond to the chapter of the book.
> ...
> Now, after adding a lot of books and notes, the file is too big. I want
> to split it into multiple files: Each file is a book.
>
> But with this, I have multiple problems:
>
> A file doesn't have a status. If I want to assign a status, I have to
> create a heading of level 1 representing the book. But in this case,
> when I export the file to PDF or HTML, the result doesn't have a title.
> And instead of having each notes as a level 1 section, I have 1 section
> of level 1, representing the book, and all the rest are sections of level
> 2.

Rather than exporting the whole file, you can export subtree. Then, book
heading title will be used as exported document title.

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