Rainer König on Advanced Exporting in Org Mode

Rainer König has posted the latest video in his Orgmode Tutorial series. This time it’s about Advanced Exporting. König starts with a single Org mode document and exports it to Beamer, PDF, and ODT. The file was written with Beamer in mind so they look best when exported to Beamer but PDF looks good to my eyes too. The ODT export wasn’t as successful but there’s probably no reason it couldn’t be.

Many people prefer to use pandoc when exporting to ODT because they feel it does a better job. Happily, I seldom have need to export to ODT so I can only report what others day. In any event, König’s video shows how a single document can be exported to several different end formats.

You can take a look at the video for the details but it’s really just a matter of choosing what you want to export to. The only non-obvious thing you have to do is enable the backends you want to use. König does this through the custom interface but it’s just as easy to simply customize org-export-backends. See the documentation for the standard list of backends. There are others available as contributed packages.

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