Hi Z, (replying to the list) I have put together a simplified function based on the code from https://medium.com/@lakshminp/publishing-a-book-using-org-mode-9e817a56d144, which simply exports each top-level header to a plain Markdown file. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/zzamboni/2e6ac3c4f577249d98efb224d9d34488 I have added some commentary in the code about what it does. After evaluating the code, you just need to call M-x org-multi-file-md-export in the buffer you want to export. I hope this helps in getting you started! Cheers, --Diego On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM Xebar Saram wrote: > Thx Deigo for the detailed answer! Really appreciate it! > > i think though it’s a bit over my head as i have limited lisp knowledge :) > > Does this export to standard markdown files or leanpub format? Honestly at > this stage im willing to export to any flavor of markdown but basic or MMD > would work best. Any tips on how i can adjust the code for that? > if not can i just run your code to get a different markdown format? What > the main function you run after evaluating the code in emacs? > i apologize in advance for the silly questions :) > > thx again > > Z > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM Diego Zamboni wrote: > >> Hi Z, >> >> I do something similar in my ox-leanpub-book module [1], which exports >> each top-level heading to a different file. The general idea is to use >> =org-map-entries= to loop over the entire buffer [2]. The function you call >> can then check whether the current entry is a header at the level you want >> [3] and then export it to the corresponding file. The title can be used to >> deduct the filename [4]. >> >> I found that I had to mark the entire subtree before calling the export >> function [5], otherwise the headline was not getting included in the export. >> >> I based my code originally on this blog post, which might be a simpler >> starting point: >> https://medium.com/@lakshminp/publishing-a-book-using-org-mode-9e817a56d144 >> - this code does not select the entire subtree before exporting, which >> means only the contents of the section is exported, but not the headline >> itself. >> >> Hope this helps! >> --Diego >> >> [1] https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/tree/book-and-markua >> [2] >> https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/blob/book-and-markua/ox-leanpub-book.el#L185-L186 >> [3] >> https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/blob/book-and-markua/ox-leanpub-book.el#L125 >> [4] >> https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/blob/book-and-markua/ox-leanpub-book.el#L131-L135 >> [5] >> https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/blob/book-and-markua/ox-leanpub-book.el#L170-L174 >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 4:54 AM Xebar Saram wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> For work specific needs at uni i have a need to take a comprehensive org >>> file with hundreds of headers and split each header into separate .md files >>> (with the header name as file name//first header in the md file). >>> Has anyone done anything remotely similar? Or if not can someone point >>> me in the right direction on how to even start dealing with this? >>> >>> thx a lot in advance any tips would be very much appreciated >>> >>> kind regards >>> >>> Z >>> >>