Hi Christian On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Christian Moe <m...@christianmoe.com> wrote: > Org doesn't already have a particular way to do this, I think, so a little > elisp is called for. It's fairly easy with the Org Properties API.
Firstly, thank you so much for taking the time to write some code, which (even as a newbie) I was able to get running quickly and easily. > Here's a modest example that will work with your sample document: ...<snip>... > Evaluate this code. Then place point in the Fido entry, do `M-x > cm/org-merge', and type `Dog Template' at the prompt. > > To improve on that, how do you want to use it? My actual use case is that I want to merge data about letters and phone calls into documents for printing with TeX. > Once Fido's data are merged with the template, what do you want to do with > the results? Mail them to someone? Export them to HTML? Make a new Org entry > with the contents and file it somewhere? Of practical benefit to me would be either: (a) make a new Org entry and file it (as you suggest) or (b) simply put it in the kill ring, so that I can yank it wherever I want. Again, thanks so much for your help, and also the other replies I received. I'm very impressed by the org-mode community responding so quickly to my question. Richard
