Thanks,  Seb and Marcin.  I didn't know about cloning.  That will do for
those parts of the tree that I know about before I start filling in the
data.  For afterwards, which is more the case I'm thinking about, I'll aim
to write an Elisp function using org-insert-subheading.  That sample macro
gives me something to go on. I'll experiment with keyboard macros, too,
which might be fine for this application.

Thx.



On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Sebastien Vauban
<sva-news@mygooglest.com>wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> > Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> >
> >> I'm using org-mode to keep track of student grades.  How can I easily
> >> add a bunch of identical headings at a certain level in my tree?
> >> Specifically,I have a L2 heading for each student, and I want to put
> >> a node (heading, with some properties) under each L2 student heading
> >> for that class.
> >
> > Personally, I'd just write a small Elisp function to do that.  (It's
> > easier than you might think - even I could do that;).)  Here's a thing
> > that is (remotely) similar:
> >
> http://mbork.pl/2013-09-23_Automatic_insertion_of_habit_templates_%28en%29
> >
> > Or, you could record a keyboard macro, and even save it as Elisp.
>
> Other solutions include:
>
> - using YASnippets, or
>
> - writing a skeleton in the Org document and cloning it N times at once
> (see
>   C-c C-x c).
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>