25.10.2 Org as an authoring system
You may want to format your Org notes nicely and to prepare them for export and publication. To export the current buffer, type C-c C-e
(org-export
) anywhere in an Org buffer. This command prompts for an export format; currently supported formats include HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, OpenDocument (.odt
), iCalendar, Markdown, man-page, and PDF. Some formats, such as PDF, require certain system tools to be installed.
To export several files at once to a specific directory, either locally or over the network, you must define a list of projects through the variable org-publish-project-alist
. See its documentation for details.
Org supports a simple markup scheme for applying text formatting to exported documents:
- This text is /emphasized/
- This text is *in bold*
- This text is _underlined_
- This text uses =a teletype font=
#+begin_quote
``This is a quote.''
#+end_quote
#+begin_example
This is an example.
#+end_example
For further details, Exporting in The Org Manual, and Publishing in The Org Manual.