Re: How to define TODOs within continuous text the best way?

From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Karl Maihofer <ignoramus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to define TODOs within continuous text the best way?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6up7dcz.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CE32EC.5060508@gmx.de> (Karl Maihofer's message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:23:40 +0100")

I can't think of a good way to make the TODO items inline for HTML
export, as the result is a list. Note, that the <p> element has to be
closed to have valid XHTML (wich means we can't use a CSS selector
`p ul' here to make it inline):

=> --->8----------------------------->8----------------------------->8---

<p> Some Text...
</p><ul>
<li id="sec-1.1.1.1.1"><span class="todo TODO"> TODO</span> Get the container <br/>
</li>
</ul>
<p> Some Text...

<= ---8<-----------------------------8<-----------------------------8<---

  Sebastian

Karl Maihofer <ignoramus@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I write some articles in Org-Mode and use the html and latex export
> function. I'm wondering about how to define TODOs within the text the
> best way. I hope my bad english lasts to explain what I mean exactly:
>
> I'd like to define a TODO like in the example below. When there is a
> task somewhere in my text (I want to look something up etc.) I want to
> define this task at the relevant position in my text. So I can lookup
> all TODOs using the agenda-view and jump directly to the position in my
> text.
>
> The problem is that a TODO is always a new heading and so it is exported
> in my html(latex)-version as a heading. I would prefer to format a TODO
> as a text box or at least to exclude it from the html(latex)-export so
> that it is only visible in org-mode - not in the exported version. But
> when I exclude the TODO so that it isn't exported anymore, not only the
> TODO itself but also the text below the TODO isn't exported until there
> is a new heading - because the TODO itself is a heading, too.
>
> I know that this is because Org-Mode is an outliner-mode, TODOs always
> have to be defined with a beginning "*". But is there any possibility to
> solve the problem? How do you define TODOs within the text when you use
> Org-Mode as an authoring tool?
>
> Perhaps it is possible to define TODOs as a very deep-level heading,
> that isn't needed, like "********** TODO text" and change the export
> function that this level isn't exported as a heading but as a
> "div"-Container? Or every heading that contains "TODO" is not exported
> as a heading but as a div-container?
>
> What is the best way to handle TODOs within continuous text?
>
> Kind regards,
> Karl
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Heading 1
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy
> eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam
> voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet
> clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit
> amet.
>
> * TODO Check again (or ********** TODO text?)
>
> This paragraph still belongs to heading 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
> consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut
> labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et
> accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no
> sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
>
> * Heading 2
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy
> eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam
> voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet
> clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit
> amet.
>
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