Re: Need help exporting subtrees to html

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 27, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Juan Reyero wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> 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....

- Carsten

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

- Carsten