>
> I also ran across this need. What I had in mind was that certain todo
> types would be treated as inline.
> For instance, if "P" was a member of this hypothetical
> org-inline-todo-keywords, then
>
> * P a paragraph
>   some contents
>
> would be rendered as
>
> some contents
>
> by the exporter, no matter the backend.
>
> Such a feature is more generic and would be useful in other contexts ;
> and the LaTeX-related issues discussed in this thread would be solved
> using something like
>
> * INLINE appendix
>   \appendix
> * Appendix 1
>

Why TODO types rather than a tag?  IMO using a TODO type would conflate
task management and document structuring.  What do you think about the
attached patch which should add this functionality to the core.