From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:54:24 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86EDC831-F315-431E-B4F7-105C0632BDF3@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131.1283147209@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
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On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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
Aloha Alan et al.,
This is what I use LaTeX blocks in Babel for. The outline stuff that
helps me write is separate from the stuff I actually write. I've been
doing this for a while now and have been amazed at how much of what I
write gets left behind, including headlines.
All the best,
Tom
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2010-12-05 6:28 Questions about org-capture templates and usage Alan
2010-12-05 11:58 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-06 3:59 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-12-06 5:02 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-12-06 8:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 8:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:10 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-12-06 14:48 ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-06 16:48 ` Nathan Neff
2010-12-06 17:53 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <9588.1291658230@gamaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>
2010-12-06 18:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-07 3:14 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-12-07 19:33 ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-06 21:35 ` Alan Davis
[not found] ` <lngndvs@gmail.com>
2010-08-30 3:31 ` LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning? Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 4:06 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 5:14 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-30 5:46 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 6:54 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-08-30 14:22 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-30 16:20 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-08-30 22:05 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-31 0:04 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 16:40 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 17:04 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-31 1:09 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-31 1:43 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-31 1:59 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-08-31 2:01 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-15 17:24 ` Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file Alan E. Davis
2012-03-15 17:34 ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-15 17:48 ` Peter Salazar
2012-03-15 17:55 ` brian powell
2012-03-15 18:05 ` brian powell
2012-03-15 19:19 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-15 19:48 ` brian powell
2012-03-16 9:32 ` Karl Voit
2012-03-16 13:46 ` brian powell
2012-03-16 16:07 ` Memacs and Gnowsis (was: Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.) Karl Voit
2010-12-05 21:44 ` Questions about org-capture templates and usage Charles Cave
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