>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:25:42 -0400, Christopher W Ryan said: > Thanks Myles. That's pretty cool. --Chris
Following on from Karl's post, this thread has some useful help on exporting inline tasks through latex: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00157.html Please copy any reply to the list so that people know you have received a reply. Please don't top post. Sorry for my word wrapping (below), will fix soon. Myles > Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical > Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 > cryanatbinghamtondotedu > "Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly > reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the > most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the > last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . ." [God, > in "Joan of Arcadia," episode entitled, "The Uncertainty > Principle."] > Myles English wrote: >>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:55:23 -0400, Christopher W Ryan said: >> >> > I'm very early in trying a transition from LaTeX to org-mode for >> > academic writing, trying to learn the Org way of doing > >> things. Running Org-mode 7.7 in Emacs 23.4.1 on Win XP. >> >> > Suppose I'm writing a draft of a research proposal and come to >> some > part that I may want to consider changing, after I think >> about it > some more, check with others, or reassess my >> resources. In LaTex, > I'd write something like this: >> >> > % need to look into this further, check with so-and-so >> >> > and keep writing on the next line. >> >> > How does one do this well in Org-mode? With a # comment >> character? > Or does this become a TODO item? >> >> Chris, >> >> I use inline tasks. e.g. >> >> *************** TODO look into this further, check with >> so-and-so *************** END >> >> And to see all of the todos in the file I use this quite a lot, >> just press F9 to see a list: >> >> ;; show all todos in the current buffer with one key press >> (global-set-key (kbd "<f9>") (lambda () (interactive) (org-agenda >> nil "t" 'file))) >> >> > Of course, I wouldn't want that little "note to self" to appear >> in > any final document. But I might want it to remain in the >> source > file, to document my line of reasoning. >> >> To not export todos, have this at the top of you file and press C-c >> on it before exporting: >> >> #+OPTIONS: todo:nil >> >> > Thanks. >> >> > --Chris -- Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical >> University > Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, >> Binghamton, NY > 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu >> >> > "Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly > >> reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the >> > most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the >> > last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . ." >> [God, > in "Joan of Arcadia," episode entitled, "The Uncertainty > >> Principle."] >> >> Myles