Re: export subtree from the command line

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

For a different approach, you could make this kind of an emacs script. I
have not done this too often, and it can be tricky to setup and debug.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle export-org-section :shebang #!/bin/sh
:;exec emacs -batch  -l ~/Dropbox/kitchingroup/jmax/init.el -l "$0" "$@"

;; usage: export-org-section section-id org-file

;; now goto, narrow and export the section
(let ((section-id (pop command-line-args-left))
      (org-file (pop command-line-args-left)))
  (print (format "Opened %s" org-file))
  (find-file (expand-file-name org-file))
  (org-open-link-from-string (format "[[#%s]]" section-id))
  (org-narrow-to-subtree)
  (org-latex-export-to-pdf)
)
#+END_SRC


#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results silent
rm -f blog.pdf
./export-org-section sec-2 blog.org
open blog.pdf
#+END_SRC

I adapted this from here:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/08/06/Writing-scripts-in-Emacs-lisp/

and here:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/08/11/Using-org-mode-outside-of-Emacs-sort-of/

j

Alan Schmitt writes:

> On 2015-02-05 08:27, "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm teaching a class where I have a big monolithic file for all the
>>> lectures. Right now I export each lecture as a subtree from the file
>>> itself, but I would like to do it from a Makefile. Is it possible to
>>> export a subtree from the command line? if so, how do I specify the
>>> subtree that I want?
>>
>> Use an ID property for the subtree.
>>
>> A small *.el file can set prereqs, find the subtree from the ID, and
>> call up the exporter.
>>
>> `make test' does something like this. If you look at
>> testing/lisp/test-ob.el, testing/examples/babel.org, and the
>> testing/*.el files you can see some of this in action.
>
> Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll give it a try.
>
> Alan

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