[O] workaround for inability to close outline section w/out starting a new one?
I love orgmode, but the inability to close an outline section without starting a new one makes it tough for me to structure some documents the way I'd like. The FAQ suggests several workarounds; one is You can create a temporary heading, such as ** Continue main section and then remove it when you are ready to export. This works, but is quite cumbersome. Is it possible to build on this workaround with a mechanism which tags a temporary heading as special, so that it 1) does not get exported, 2) does not appear in the TOC, 3) does not contribute to section numbering and 4) is displayed in a special face in the Emacs buffer to indicate that it is a temporary heading? Such an approach would go a long way towards making the temporary heading workaround a bit more practical. Thanks, Sam
Re: [Orgmode] not exporting TODOs but exporting their subordinates
Thanks for your response! On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:23 AM, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: Someone *might* be able to give you a workaround, but the way org-mode works as far as I can see is that export rules always apply to the children of a higher-level headline. As such, the subitems of the non-exported TODO are taken to be notes or things related to the TODO, and since you don't want the TODO exported it would seem that you don't want the items related to the TODO exported either. Maybe if you explain a situation where you'd not want the actual TODO exported but still want items under it exported, someone could help you with a workaround or alternative suggestion? The situation is one that arguably results from a lack of discipline on my part (hence my interest in org-mode!): I add TODO items to documents I'm writing without much regard as to how they fit into the overall structure of the file. In other words, my TODOs are generally one-liners which are sprinkled with abandon throughout the file. Perhaps as I get more familiar with org-mode I will use TODOs in a more structured way, but right now they are not a structured list of tasks but rather a bunch of reminders distributed through a document. Does that make things clearer? Sam John On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Cramer samcra...@gmail.com wrote: When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at. I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate items. Here's an example: * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline exported, including the this is stuff I would like exported line. I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. Is there any other solution I should consider? Thanks, Sam ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: not exporting TODOs but exporting their subordinates
Ah, org-inlinetask.el, correct? Looks great -- thanks for the advice! Sam On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.dewrote: Sam Cramer samcra...@gmail.com writes: When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at. I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate items. Here's an example: * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline exported, including the this is stuff I would like exported line. I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. Is there any other solution I should consider? Thanks, Sam Here's my proposal: * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff *** TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported Or just use inline tasks. They are made for this purpose. Sebastian ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] not exporting TODOs but exporting their subordinates
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Sam Cramer samcra...@gmail.com wrote: The situation is one that arguably results from a lack of discipline on my part (hence my interest in org-mode!): I add TODO items to documents I'm writing without much regard as to how they fit into the overall structure of the file. In other words, my TODOs are generally one-liners which are sprinkled with abandon throughout the file. Perhaps as I get more familiar with org-mode I will use TODOs in a more structured way, but right now they are not a structured list of tasks but rather a bunch of reminders distributed through a document. Does that make things clearer? It does make things clearer. Perhaps, then, the best solution is to just make sure your TODOs have no children, then? Or use the other suggestion for inline TODOs? In your example, for example, wouldn't this work? * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff ** TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported The TODO was directed at the stuff above anyway, so it perhaps doesn't need to be it's own main headline? The above works perfectly on export for me. Yes, that works too. The only caveat is that if I later add a subordinate item to more stuff under the TODO, it won't export. Org-inlinetask.el or simply making the TODOs deeply nested without the help of org-inlinetask should solve that problem. Thanks again for the help! Sam John Sam John On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Cramer samcra...@gmail.com wrote: When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at. I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate items. Here's an example: * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline exported, including the this is stuff I would like exported line. I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. Is there any other solution I should consider? Thanks, Sam ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] not exporting TODOs but exporting their subordinates
When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at. I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate items. Here's an example: * An amazing headline ** stuff ** more stuff * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: ** this is stuff that I would like exported In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline exported, including the this is stuff I would like exported line. I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. Is there any other solution I should consider? Thanks, Sam ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] TODO list in new buffer?
I'm a new org-mode user. It's a really nice piece of work, and I'm having a good time using it to organize a bunch of work-related tasks! I can't figure out how to create a list of all the TODO items in an org file in a new buffer. I'd like to have the TODO list in one buffer and the org file in another, so I can refer to the TODO list while editing the org file. I looked through the manual and didn't see a way to do this, though it's possible that I overlooked a relevant section. Thanks, Sam ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
