Re: Need help exporting subtrees to html

[Juan Reyero <joanmg@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Juan Reyero wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Carsten Dominik
>> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 27, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Juan Reyero wrote:
>>>> I have written a function to export org-mode subtrees as jekyll posts,
>>>> http://juanreyero.com/open/org-jekyll/  The idea is that any entry in
>>>> an org-publish project that has a :blog: keyword and an :on: property
>>>> with a timestamp should be exported to a _posts directory with the
>>>> year-month-day-title.html that jekyll expects, with the properties as
>>>> front-matter.
>>>>
>>>> I was very happy with it, until I realized that the levels of the
>>>> headers in the exported file (h2, h3, etc) depend on the indentation
>>>> of the subtree in the outline.  I wanted to be able to add a :blog:
>>>> subtree anywhere in my project's files, and get it always exported the
>>>> same, regardless of where in the outline it is.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any reasonably simple way to overcome this problem?  I am
>>>> using:
>>>>
>>>> (org-narrow-to-subtree)
>>>> (setq html (org-export-as-html nil nil nil 'string t nil))
>>>
>>> Hi Juan,
>>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> (outline-mark-subtree)
>>> (setq html (org-export-as-html nil nil nil 'string t nil))
>>
>> Thanks for your answer.  I've tried it, but now it exports the whole
>> buffer, as if (outline-mark-subtree) didn't understand which subtree I
>> am looking at.  I am doing this from within an (org-map-entries).  If
>> I first narrow and then mark it doesn't work either: it complains of
>> "Before first headline at position...".
>
> You are right, this does not work as I had hoped.  What needs to be
> done is that the tree must be selected, and the region needs to be *active*
> when the export command is called.  I am not quite sure right now
> how to do this in the middle of a Lisp program....

Looks like it is not going to be a small investment.  For the time
being I'll stick to writing blog posts as first-level entries, and
I'll try to figure it out when I find some more time.  Thank you very
much for your answers.

Cheers,

Juan

>> I have updated the tests at http://github.com/juanre/org-jekyll to
>> reflect the problem.
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