From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:46:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20131.1283147209@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <15790.1283141198@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53499 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpxCy-0008OM-3N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:47:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpxCw-0000WC-Hf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:47:03 -0400 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.1]:49586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpxCw-0000Vu-ET for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:47:02 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0L7Y00EG5AQ2W190@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:46:50 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Scot Becker of "Mon\, 30 Aug 2010 06\:14\:48 BST." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Scot Becker Cc: org-mode , nicholas.dokos@hp.com Scot Becker wrote: > He wants to write up a document using org-mode's outline facilities as > a skeleton to help him build up, navigate and visualize his document, > but then he wants only to use SOME of the headlines but ALL of the > text when he actually makes a printed version for others to read.=C2=A0= =C2=A0 > I've wanted this as well, since when you think about it the structure > you need as a writer may not be the structure you want to pass on to > your readers. >=20 OK, thanks for the clarification: that was one of the interpretations that did not make much sense to me, but I was looking at it from a much more rigid point of view, where the headlines are what give structure to the document, so you want to preserve them at all costs; I wasn't thinking about different meanings that they might have for different people. However, it still sounds like an ill-defined problem to me: in particular, your manual algorithm would wreak havoc on an outline with headlines at multiple levels. What is the "real" algorithm supposed to do with something like this: ,---- | * foo | text1 | ** foo1 | text2 | * bar :omit-this-header: | text3 | **bar2 :omit-this-header: | text4 | ***bar3 | text5 `---- Or are we supposed to imagine headings at a single level only? I suspect that one would be better off with two (or more) outlines: one for the writer, one for the reader (perhaps one for each class of readers), with some way to pick text from one outline and plug it into the other(s). Nick