>> "Suvayu" == Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

   > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 09:26:22PM +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:
   >> 
   >> the issue is I want to write say one paragraph in Spanish
   >> and the next in German, again spanish then German, etc
   >> but the odt file should only display one language.

   > Why are you not using Org comments?

   > Visible text, exported

   > # Org comment, not exported

   > Hope this helps,

this works, of course, thanks! The only issue is if I want to export say
either only Spanish or only German, than this approach needs to delete
and replace  the comments manually. But ok, better than nothing. 

That is 

Spanish is exported 
# german is not exported.


# spanish not
German is exported.

While I would like to have some tags which I could toggle on and off,
for example in the example of Eric, I would just substitute 
the tag :noexport: for :export:

However his approach needs to set headers before the text.

Anyhow thanks for you help.

Uwe