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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Properties Drawer versus tags
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:18:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e2ryqip.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFAhFSVTGWS+hDKjWMTytr0AAqfA8aXzAtJk+F2uzR=vcUOJOw@mail.gmail.com>


On 2019-12-19 at 22:24 -08, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
wrote...
> Very simple, largely philosophical question: When/why use a properties
> drawer below a heading versus just using tags on the heading? What are
> the advantages, disadvantages of both?

Tags are binary. They are there or not.

Property drawers allow you to assign values to variables.

I've never fully understood why some property drawers are set to binary. For controlling LaTeX export I have both a property ":clearpage: t" and a tag ":ignore:", and the tag makes more sense to me. Some of those may only exist in my personal config.

  -k.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-20 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-20  6:24 Properties Drawer versus tags Lawrence Bottorff
     [not found] ` <CACv55yT8Lg+Z=gR0hyUhQ-08bFqn9xMtLn6JP=EZQzQMf_SXqg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-20  6:46   ` David R
2019-12-20  6:47   ` Fwd: " David R
2019-12-20 11:54 ` Allen Li
2019-12-20 15:18 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2019-12-20 16:35   ` Lawrence Bottorff
2019-12-20 17:17 ` Adam Porter

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