Re: [O] export_file_name problem with new exporter

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:38:50PM +0100, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:27:40AM +0100, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I have "#+EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ~/tmp/jsseccloud.tex" in an org file, but
> >> when I export it (either to beamer or to latex), it's using the name of
> >> the file instead of the given file name.
> >> 
> >> Am I doing something wrong here?
> >> 
> >
> > As far as I am aware, that works for subtree export only.
> 
> Ah, this is problematic. I need to change the file name for two reasons:
> - the org file name has spaces in it, and latexmk fails when processing
> it
> - processing the file creates a bunch of files that clobber my org
> directory, so I want the created files to be out of the way
> 
> If someone has suggestions on how to deal with these issues, I'd gladly
> try them.
> 

You could try the publishing facilities in Org.

(info "(org)Publishing")

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Suvayu

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