Re: Selective Export Question

[Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>]

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Mark Elston wrote:
> 
>> I have been making progress on my use of org-mode to manage both
>> my teaching notes and handouts in a single document.  However, there
>> is something I still have not been able to make happen.  That is
>> selective exporting of text *without* exporting a headline along with
>> it.
>>
>> Here is a sample of what I would like.  In this example I have sections
>> with "common" text (should be in both teaching notes and handouts) and
>> sections that are specific to each individual output format.  What I
>> have below is set up to export the notes.  What I would like is to
>> have the text (only) of the non-excluded sections and not the headlines.
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I think the right path for this is a function that you write and install
> in org-export-preprocess-hook.  Then you can set your own conditions and
> remove those headlines before Org even tries to look at them.
> 
> HTH
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> 

Thanks, Carsten.

It is amazing how much infrastructure there is to support so many
features.  I wasn't aware of all the hooks available and this one
escaped my attention.  I will look into it.  My elisp isn't as good
as my C++ (or Python, or Perl...) but it is probably good enough to
make use of this.

Mark