Re: [O] export subtree

[John Hendy]

Hi Scott,
(Also adding in the group, just in case anyone else might want to see
this; no point typing a message twice!)


Took me a little bit to make good on my offer! This was for work, and
while it's probably not *that* sensitive (especially with anonymized
names), I took the time to change all the links away from our intranet
address. Never know who would care about some link between a company
and one of its employees on a mailing list... The rest is fairly
original to illustrate the use case. I was generating financial "cheat
sheets" for the equivalent of college clubs we have at work organized
around various technology interests. There's a chair, they're assigned
a budget, and need to charge expenses to a particular account number.
While all of this information exists in a wiki, our workplace is a bit
"old school" and people wanted some type of hard copy. Not being too
excited to hand generate 40+ of these

I attached a zip of what should be a fairly reproducible example if
you have R functionality enabled. If you go the whole document +
stapler route to split it, you'll need stapler installed and in your
path to run the bash code at the end. There's a link in the document.

I forgot that I'd programatically generated an EXPORT_FILE_NAME
property for each headline as well. That ended up tying back into
Skip's original issue, as I discovered by looking at my generated
documents that I went the manual subtree export route. I preferred the
headlines as the document title vs. just a headline, and couldn't get
there with a bulk export + split. I'd completely forgotten, yet ended
up in the same conundrum :)


Let me know if you run into issues, and hope you find it helpful!
John

P.S. I zipped these from within the directory, so you'll want to
create a folder and unzip them into it.





On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:25 AM, scot junkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> This sounds awesome, would enjoy an exampme
>
> On Dec 10, 2015 5:41 PM, "John Hendy" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Herbert Sitz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Not a perfect solution, buy I think you can use the #+SELECT_TAGS option
>> > to
>> > set which tress will be exported by default, then tag your desired
>> > export
>> > tree with that tag.  Then when you export the full buffer (not just a
>> > subtree) it will choose the tree with that tag.
>> >
>>
>> This was going to be my suggestion as well! In the case that a
>> majority of the document is desired for export, #+EXCLUDE_TAGS is
>> helpful as well. For reference:
>> - http://orgmode.org/manual/Export-settings.html
>>
>> Export tags are fantastic, as one can add as many as desired and then
>> simply change the #+select_tags/#+exclude_tags target to generate a
>> bunch of variations from the same single .org file.
>>
>> Maybe a little extreme and irrelevant to the OP need(s), but I've also
>> programmatically generated Org heading syntax with R, spit out
>> headlines with data driven content, inserted a \newpage at the end of
>> each, and then split them apart with stapler.[1] I was serving as a
>> financials secretary for a group at work, managing the budgets of many
>> chapter entities. This allowed me to start with a .csv with the target
>> spend for the next year, use R to create a document for each chapter,
>> and then send the chairs their tailored document vs. manually changing
>> figures and generating ~40 documents by hand. Worked slick! If any of
>> that sounds appealing/relevant, let me know and I can share an
>> example.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> John
>>
>> > E.g.,
>> > ---------------------------------
>> > #+SELECT_TAGS: myexporttree
>> >
>> > * Main tree     :myexporttree:
>> > fkjaldfk
>> > ** subhead
>> > ** subhead
>> > * anoher heading 1
>> > * another heading level 1
>> > ** subhead
>> > ** subhead
>> > --------------------------------
>> >
>> > In org buffer above it will export only the first subtree now when you
>> > export the entire buffer.  You should be able to export the others
>> > selectively if you choose scope as 'subtree'.  And you can always
>> > comment
>> > out or delete the SELECT_TAGS line if you want to export entire buffer.
>> >
>> >
>>
>

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