[Orgmode] Re: customize exporting "visible" contents

[Patrick Drechsler]

Jost Burkardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Patrick Drechsler <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I currently have a large knowledge-base in a single org file (>5k
>> lines of code). When exporting certain sections I would like to
>> exclude the rest completely.
>
> I'd very much appreciate your proposed feature and propose an
> additional idea, which has been on my mind for a while: it would be
> very nice to be able export subsections of a file to different
> export-files, maybe by using #+CATEGORY or another keyword. I like
> having all my information in one file, but exporting this as a
> singe webpage always lookes a mess.....
>
> At the moment I use the following approach as a workaround:
>
> 1. move to subtree which should be exported
> 2. M-x org-narrow-to-subtree (or C-x n s)
> 3. manually adapt the heading-level via M-<left>
> 4. M-x org-export (or C-c C-e)
> 5. re-adapt heading-level and finally
> 6. M-x widen (or C-x n w)
>
> which is quite quick....

Jost, thanks for pointing out this nice workaround!

Cheers,

Patrick

Patrick
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