Re: [O] Batch export to html

[Nick Dokos]

Vikas Rawal <address@hidden> wrote:

> I would like to export an org file to html using a batch command. This
> is the command I tried.
> 
> emacs --batch --load=$HOME/lisp/org-7.01/lisp/org.el --eval "(setq
> org-export-headline-levels 1)" --visit=$HOME/file.org --funcall 
> org-export-as-html-batch
> 
> But I get an error which says: 
> 
> Symbol's function definition is void: org-in-block-p
> 
> Could anyone explain what this could mean?
> 

Exactly what it says: the function org-in-block-p is not defined anywhere.

Generally speaking, just loading org.el is *not* the way to initialize
org. I have a minimal.emacs which looks like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp -*-
;;; constant part
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name 
"~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/contrib/lisp"))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
(require 'org-install)

(setq debug-on-error t)
(setq eval-expression-print-length nil)
(setq eval-expression-print-level nil)

(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


(there is usually a "variable" part as well that is tailored for whatever
test I'm trying to do at the time). The important point is that to initialize
*my* installation of org, I have to (require 'org-install).
If you use org from git, you should have something similar. If not git, your
minimal .emacs should mimic pretty much your real .emacs (with extra
stuff stripped out). 

With that, I can export with no problems:

,----
| $ emacs --batch --load=$HOME/minimal.emacs.org --eval "(setq 
org-export-headline-levels 1)" --visit=foo.org --funcall 
org-export-as-html-batch
| enabling speedbar support
| OVERVIEW
| Exporting...
| Exporting...
| Saving file /home/nick/src/org/html/foo.html...
| Wrote /home/nick/src/org/html/foo.html
| HTML export done, pushed to kill ring and clipboard
`----

Nick