Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[Ulf Stegemann]

I'm wondering what's the best way to export a single org file to a
/single/ LaTeX file but also to /multiple/ HTML files. Think of lengthy
manuals and things like that where such a strategy may be sensible. What
came to my mind were include commands or publishing functions that
post-process the export but this seems all rather cumbersome. Has anyone
a better idea?

Ulf

Re: Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[Sebastian Rose]

Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de> writes:
> I'm wondering what's the best way to export a single org file to a
> /single/ LaTeX file but also to /multiple/ HTML files. Think of lengthy
> manuals and things like that where such a strategy may be sensible. What
> came to my mind were include commands or publishing functions that
> post-process the export but this seems all rather cumbersome. Has anyone
> a better idea?


 - http://orgmode.org/worg/code/org-info-js/
 - pdftohtml

??

  Sebastian

Re: Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[Ulf Stegemann]

Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> wrote:

> Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de> writes:
>> I'm wondering what's the best way to export a single org file to a
>> /single/ LaTeX file but also to /multiple/ HTML files. Think of lengthy
>> manuals and things like that where such a strategy may be sensible. What
>> came to my mind were include commands or publishing functions that
>> post-process the export but this seems all rather cumbersome. Has anyone
>> a better idea?
>
>  - http://orgmode.org/worg/code/org-info-js/

yes, this is a nice one but sometimes separate files are really needed.

>  - pdftohtml

Ah, a clever one, too ;)
Sure, it's possible to create a PDF and convert it to HTML later on but
this still seems a bit cumbersome and I'm not quite sure about the
reliability of the tool. When I used it last (some time ago) it
desperately failed on some PDFs.

Originally, I thought I could somehow achieve some sort of `split'
behaviour (e.g. like in texi2html) where you can specify to create a
separate file on export for every first (second, third ...) level
headline. But that's probably a bit tricky.

Ulf

Re: Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[David Maus]

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Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>I'm wondering what's the best way to export a single org file to a
>/single/ LaTeX file but also to /multiple/ HTML files. Think of lengthy
>manuals and things like that where such a strategy may be sensible. What
>came to my mind were include commands or publishing functions that
>post-process the export but this seems all rather cumbersome. Has anyone
>a better idea?

The function below could be a starting point of a more general
functionality: It takes a file and splits copys all headlines with a
certain level to a separate output file.

The more general functionality I am thinking of would be: Create
multiple output files for one or more input files that contain
headlines that match a certain criteria.

E.g.: Create output file "TODO.org" with all headlines with todo
keyword TODO or put all files with the tag "tag" into a output file
"tag.org" etc.

Things to consider:

  - escape sequences for output file names
    ("%number" -> counter, "%tag" -> tag etc.)

  - functions to move headline from here to there
    (copy, cut, cut and insert link)

  - maybe provide template for the output file's in file options
    (e.g. #+TITLE etc.)

For the splitting-by-level there is one caveat: The numbering of the
headlines is lost.

Definitively something that should be cooked up a little more.

,----
| (defun org-split-file (file level outfmt)
|   "Split FILE into multiple files.
| FILE is Org file to split.
| LEVEL is outline level of headlines.
| OUTFMT is a template for output files."
|   (let ((visiting (find-buffer-visiting file))
|         (cnt 1)
|         cand hl out)
|     (with-current-buffer (or visiting (find-file-noselect file))
|       (save-excursion
|         (save-restriction
|           (setq cand (org-map-entries 'point
|                                       (format "LEVEL=%s" level)
|                                       'file))
|           (while (setq hl (pop cand))
|             (goto-char hl)
|             (setq out (concat
|                        (org-replace-escapes outfmt
|                                             `(("%n" . ,(format "%s" cnt))))
|                        ".org"))
|             (org-copy-subtree)
|             (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect out)
|               (erase-buffer)
|               (org-paste-subtree level)
|               (save-buffer))
|             (kill-buffer (find-buffer-visiting out))
|             (setq cnt (1+ cnt))
|             (print out)))))))
`----

HTH
 -- David
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Re: Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[Eric Schulte]

Possibly one of these...
- http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/publish.html
- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-jekyll.php

Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de> writes:

> I'm wondering what's the best way to export a single org file to a
> /single/ LaTeX file but also to /multiple/ HTML files. Think of lengthy
> manuals and things like that where such a strategy may be sensible. What
> came to my mind were include commands or publishing functions that
> post-process the export but this seems all rather cumbersome. Has anyone
> a better idea?
>
> Ulf
>
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Re: Exporting to single LaTeX file and multiple HTML files

[Ulf Stegemann]

Hi David, Eric, all,

David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> wrote:

> The function below could be a starting point of a more general
> functionality: It takes a file and splits copys all headlines with a
> certain level to a separate output file.

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

> Possibly one of these...
> - http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/publish.html
> - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-jekyll.php

thank you both for the pointers, they all look interesting and I'll have
a closer look at it soon.

Originally, I've asked the question because of a forthcoming project
with a rather large documentation where I'd like to advocate org as
documentation system. However, since the whole thing has been postponed,
the matter is less pressing.

Nevertheless, I think that having a functionality to split files on
export would be a nice improvement of org mode. If I would really need
this some day, I'd probably write something to achieve it but certainly
not in elisp as it would take me far too long due to lack of skill. I'd
rather go for a ruby, perl or even shell script for post-processing the
export.

However, such post-processing would certainly not be the very best
solution, an implementation in elisp would be much better.

Regarding the split criteria, I'd say that splitting by section level is
probably the most common case, although keeping track of the section
numbering may pose a problem as David has already mentioned. Splitting
by tag may be also useful. Ideally, section level or tag could be
defined as export option.

As said, the topic has been currently put on hold for me, but I'd
nevertheless appreciate any hints and pointers regarding it.

Ulf