I'm doing some recreational writing using org-mod. I like it so far. Great. I think I've gotten best results using pandoc to create a PDF, but the results are beautiful. I could do the same from within emacs I'm sure.

I have one file per chapter, which is natural and works for me. I can maybe be dissuaded. I think every file wants a `#+TITLE:`, at least because pandoc requires it or complains. If I output "one chapter" (file), everything looks great. The (chapter) title looks just the way I like it.

If I do the following with pandoc:

pandoc -s *.org -o my_book.pdf 

The problem is that the titles of the chapters end up all mashed together at the top of the document. Everything is more or less perfect.

Should I maybe just not do this and manage this as one big doc, using hideability to deal with the unwieldiness? I could be convinced.