Q: Publish org files based on recursive links
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shortichon · 2022-12-13 17:54

Hi,

I would like to share a subset of my org notes to co-workers by
exporting them in html files that are linked together, with one
entrypoint which is an org note that I manage to keep up to date with
the project state. But I have hundreds of org notes, all in the same
directory, so I can't juste use the org-publish `:recursive t` option.

What I would like is an option to specify one (or many) org-files to
be included and then that the export process follow all links inside
the given files (currently org-roam links) and try to included those
linked files too.

Is something like this already exist ? (I've search but not found
anything relevant to my need) And if not, what should be my firsts
steps to make it work as I wish (I'm fairly new to org publish
process).

Thanks !

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AndreaSomePostfix · 2022-12-13 22:34

I don't use this but maybe org-publish already has a solution for you:
check the docs for org-publish-project-alist

"The :exclude property may be used to prevent certain files from
being published.  Its value may be a string or regexp matching
file names you don't want to be published.
"

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shortichon · 2022-12-14 10:50

Thanks for the idea, but in fact I've already tried this `:exclude`
tag in combination with `:include ["my_index_org_file.org"]`. It
succeed to export only my 'index' file an not the whole directory, but
now what I would like is the export process to recursively follow each
link in this file and to export them as well.

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hkjels · 2022-12-14 19:54

Just remove the include

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shortichon · 2022-12-14 20:57

I've tried but as expected if I have `:exclude "*"` (because I don't
want to export at least 90% of my org-notes) and I remove `:include`
nothing is exported with the org-publish-project (or -all or -file).

Currently my config look likes :

```lisp
(push '("org-ap"
               :base-directory "~/Documents/org/roam"
               :base-extension "org"
               :publishing-directory "~/Documents/Atelier
Paysan/export_html"
               :publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
               :recursive nil
               :exclude ".*"
               :headline-level 10
               :auto-preamble t
               :auto-index t
               ;:index-filename
"20220209111729-la_bete_gestion_du_projet_porte_d_entree.org"
               ;:include
["20220209111729-la_bete_gestion_du_projet_porte_d_entree.org"]
               )
```

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hkjels · 2022-12-15 09:32

Publish don’t care about what you have included in each document,
that’s just used for linking. You’ll have to employ some pattern for
the files you want to exclude I believe