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Subject: Re: are heading properties always strings?
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Hi John,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> 2. I guess it makes sense that properties would be read as strings,
> but that wasn't obvious from the documentation they would be strings.
>
> 3. It also wasn't obvious that you have to give org-entry-put a
> string. If you try to set it to an integer, you get strange control
> characters like ^A or ^C.

Can you tell which place in the documentation you expect to find this
information?  In functions' docstrings or in the manual?

Thanks,

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 Bastien