I don't know if this is intended behaviour or not. Save the following as setuop.org
#+BEGIN_SRC :SETUP: #+LANGUAGE: en #+DRAWERS: SETUP NOTES PROPERTIES #+OPTIONS: author:nil date:nil d:nil title:nil ':t tex:t #+STARTUP: content indent :END: #+END_SRC Now include setup.org in test.org #+BEGIN_SRC #+SETUPFILE: ./setup.org #+TITLE: A Three Second Route. * A Three Second Route. Some text. #+END_SRC Exporting as html result in: #+BEGIN_SRC html <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <!-- 2017-07-31 Mon 18:22 --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <title>A Three Second Route.</title> <meta name="generator" content="Org mode" /> #+END_SRC Note that TITLE is exported. Using org-master bb6e40b08655cc2f33bdf6f9 Ian.
