Dear Colin,

we have implemented a preview service at our institute which converts org-files for people who do not want to or can not run org-mode locally (people can hand in org-files which will be converted to HTML as personal web pages for institute members, http://www.nf.mpg.de/cv-howto/cv-en.html). It runs on a Unix box and the core - the part which is called from a web frontend and converts an org-file (and associated files in our case) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
/opt/emacs23.sol/bin/emacs -Q --batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \"/opt/org-7.01/lisp/\")" -load "/var/opt/webstack/apache2/2.2/htdocs/org/emacs-
setup.el" --visit="$1" --eval "(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)" --funcall my-org-publish-current

The main point is, like Erik pointed out, that we define the path to the org-mode lisp files and in emacs-setup.el then define some functions for publishing org-files in a project-oriented fashion - that part could be simpler in your case.

Warm regards, 
 Stefan




On 01.10.2010, at 09:49, Colin Grey wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically change a bunch of my org-mode files into HTML files.  But am running into some problems.  The structure, as best I understand it, should like something like this:
> 
> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org.txt") (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
> 
> However, when I run that, it gives the output:
> 
> Loading 00fink-vars...
> Exporting...
> Exporting...
> Exporting...
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> 
> 
> Oddly, I've noticed that if I don't use my custom extension (.org.txt) but just use .org like so:
> 
> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org") (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
> 
> It will run, but will always spit out a blank HTML file, no matter the contents of test.org
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help,
> 
> Colin Grey
> 
> www.CGPGrey.com
> www.ProductivePorcupine.com
> 

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