From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Edgington Subject: proposal to have ignoreheading tags/properties Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:49:31 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8Cc-0008Bv-3F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:50:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8Cb-0006FR-8N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:50:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::230]:49487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8Cb-0006Ej-2S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:50:13 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id wm4so805233obc.35 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:50:11 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode In using org-mode, there is one problem that has always irked me (and is apparently also closely related to the FAQ "How do I ignore a headline?"). When I am writing something, I sometimes want to group things by concept or by work to be done, or any other number of groupings. BUT I do not want these groupings to be part of the exported document itself. In fact, I would like it to be as if the grouping did not exist at all (i.e. a headline that is ignored). The problem with using an ignored headline for grouping things is that it still does have an effect on exported document structure, in that all of the elements contained "inside / in the scope of" the ignored headline still keep their depth (one level deeper than the level of the ignored headline). What I want is for the nested items to have their levels all promoted by one, so that it's truly as if the ignored headline wasn't there at all, and that it invisibly wrapped around a group of items without requiring them to have a deeper level. Perhaps this could be done by use of an "ignoreheading" and an "ignoreheadingpromote" tag (one promotes the level of contained items, another doesn't), or some equivalent set of properties that could be set on a headline. Would there be any chance that something like this could be built in to org-mode? I think it would make it far more flexible in terms of organizing things, making this organization process orthogonal to the selection of sections/subsections of a document.