What command-line arguments do I use to get Emacs to export an org-mode file to a Beamer PDF? (I want to create a Makefile that produces a PDF when the user runs make.)
I tried following this answer but couldn't get it to work:
$ emacs --batch foo.org -f org-beamer-export-to-pdf Symbol's function definition is void: org-beamer-export-to-pdf $ emacs --batch -l ox-beamer foo.org -f org-beamer-export-to-pdf Cannot open load file: ox-beamer The above error comes from the fact that the org-mode files are in a custom location and my ~/.emacs.d/init.el is not loaded (--batch implies -q a.k.a. --no-init-file).
If I tell Emacs to load my init file it will work:
$ emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el foo.org -f org-beamer-export-to-pdf However, this doesn't work for other users that use ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el instead of ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I tried telling Emacs to load user-init-file but it didn't work:
$ emacs --batch --eval '(load user-init-file)' foo.org -f org-beamer-export-to-pdf Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Assuming all users can successfully press C-x C-e l P to export a Beamer PDF when using Emacs interactively, what non-interactive command will produce a PDF?
(require 'org)or something like that – your init file is doing some loading that--batchis prohibiting.emacs -u $USER --batch --eval '(message "-----> My user-init-file: "%s" user-init-file)'. If you don't load your init file, you probably need to requireox-beamer.