Re: [Orgmode] export (as latex) a large number of org files in a directory

[Nick Dokos]

Stephen Tucker <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to export a bunch of .org files stored in a directory as 
> latex files. I have tried two methods:
> 
> (1) 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> At the bash prompt (I am using OS X):
> 
> bash$ emacs --batch
> --load=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/org.elc
> --visit=file.org --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch'
> 
> and I get an error:
> "Cannot open load file: subst-ksc"
> 
> If I can get this to work, then I can embed this system call in a shell 
> script and call it iteratively on a list of .org files retrieved from, say, 
> Python or Bash (changing 'file.org' appropriately each time).
> 

Did you escape the newlines? If you cut-n-pasted from the
org-export-as-latex-batch help, you fell into the trap :-) Maybe the
documentation of the function could be changed to add the backslashes?

The following script (I call it org-to-latex) works fine on linux:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#! /bin/bash

orglib=$HOME/elisp/org-mode/lisp
emacs   --batch \
        --load=$orglib/org.elc \
        --eval "(setq org-export-headline-levels 2)" \
        --visit=$1 --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You can add a loop in it too - or do the loop by hand:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
for x in *.org
do
        org-to-latex $x
done
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH,
Nick