Wow, that was way easier than I thought it would be. Made a couple of
modest changes to org-html-to-html, and now a simple keybinding exports to
my desired location and opens the file in my desired location, which I
purge every couple of days.  Thank you!

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have an org file with lots of long tables in it; org is great for the
> > data entry part, but sometimes I want to see the long lines in the table
> in
> > their entirety, and for this I export to HTML. It works great.  However,
> > for whatever reason I don't want the HTML to live in the same directory
> as
> > the original org file.*
> >
> > I have tried this:
> >
> > #+BIND: org-export-publishing-directory "/tmp/"
> >
> > But that doesn't work, I think because I export using the export
> interface,
> > not by publishing. Is there a comparable variable for export location?
>
> You can build a function around `org-export-to-file'. See
> `org-html-export-to-html' for example.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>