On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Hendy wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Sam Cramer wrote: > >> >> The situation is one that arguably results from a lack of discipline on my >> part (hence my interest in org-mode!): I add TODO items to documents I'm >> writing without much regard as to how they fit into the overall structure of >> the file. In other words, my TODOs are generally "one-liners" which are >> sprinkled with abandon throughout the file. >> >> Perhaps as I get more familiar with org-mode I will use TODOs in a more >> structured way, but right now they are not a structured list of tasks but >> rather a bunch of reminders distributed through a document. >> >> Does that make things clearer? >> >> > It does make things clearer. Perhaps, then, the best solution is to just > make sure your TODOs have no children, then? Or use the other suggestion for > inline TODOs? > > In your example, for example, wouldn't this work? > > -------- > * An amazing headline > ** stuff > ** more stuff > ** TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: > ** this is stuff that I would like exported > -------- > > The TODO was directed at the stuff above anyway, so it perhaps doesn't need > to be it's own main headline? The above works perfectly on export for me. > Yes, that works too. The only caveat is that if I later add a subordinate item to "more stuff" under the TODO, it won't export. Org-inlinetask.el or simply making the TODOs deeply nested without the help of org-inlinetask should solve that problem. Thanks again for the help! Sam > > > John > > >> Sam >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Cramer wrote: >>> >>>> When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout >>>> the doc. These are really very loosely structured; they just represent >>>> things that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at. >>>> >>>> I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from >>>> being exported. As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, >>>> and I often mark them as top level headlines. Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS >>>> applies to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any >>>> subordinate items. >>>> >>>> Here's an example: >>>> >>>> * An amazing headline >>>> ** stuff >>>> ** more stuff >>>> * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport: >>>> ** this is stuff that I would like exported >>>> >>>> >>>> In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO >>>> headline exported, including the "this is stuff I would like exported" line. >>>> >>>> I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level. >>>> Is there any other solution I should consider? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sam >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >>>> >>>> >>> >> >