Publish headlines into multiple individual files?
reddit / emacs

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deafpolygon · 2022-12-16 10:02

I'm an emac / LISP newbie.

I haven't really dug into it yet, but is it possible to take an org
file.. take a series of 1st level or 2nd level headlines and generate
.md (or .org) files based on its content?

i.e.  in `somecollection.org`

    * item1
    # updated sometimes yesterday
    sometext
    ** item1 subheading
    somemore text
    * item2
    something about item2

Then take that, and make item1.md, item2.md with the contents of
`item1.md` looking like:

    # item1
    Some text
    ## item1 subheading
    somemore text

and `item2.md`:

    # item2
    something about item2

My premise: I want to maintain some collection of data in a single
file and publish it into another format for sharing/distribution.
With comment blocks ignored and not shared.

It doesn't have to be exactly like I described, if there's a reliable
package that does something like this already.

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akirakom · 2022-12-16 10:10

Check out `org-transclusion` package.

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deafpolygon · 2022-12-16 10:29

Interesting package, but not what I need.  I want to generate new
files based on the headlines in my current ('master') file.

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akirakom · 2022-12-16 10:35

It's simpler. You can use Org Exporting. It's builtin.

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deafpolygon · 2022-12-16 10:47

> Org Exporting

This only exports a single file. Is there a way to have it do mulitple
files, one per headline?

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akirakom · 2022-12-16 10:53

This is ox-hugo, but I think you can implement a similar functionality
for yourself: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/doc/auto-export-on-saving/

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deafpolygon · 2022-12-16 11:30

I’ll take a look at it