On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote:

>
> Using "PROJECT" as a TODO keyword certainly can work, however, my  
> work flow usually is first quickly mark anything that needs action  
> with "TODO" and later I may add more sub-items to it. Following this  
> approach I will need to remember to change "TODO" to "PROJECT" once  
> a TODO item starts to have sub-items. Also, if all sub-actions of a  
> "PROJECT" are marked as "DONE", I need to remember to turn the  
> "PROJECT" back to "TODO", as I need the sparse tree to remind me to  
> double check this TODO/PROJECT item to see whether it is really all  
> done, or I need to add more sub-actions to it (and turn it back to  
> "PROJECT" again).
>
> As you can see, that is a lot of manually actions and mistakes can  
> be easily made. Maybe my workflow has some problem here, but I can  
> not think of anything else that works better. The difficulty to me  
> is, an item can be either PROJECT or TODO depending on how detailed  
> your plan is, which keeps changing.
>
> I think if we can have the *option* of selecting a different face  
> for highlighting sparse tree leaves, the above can be solved  
> elegantly. You can still see the whole sparse tree, but the leaves  
> will stand out.
>
> Just trying to push my case a little bit. :-)   Thanks a lot.

That is fine, but it does not work in this case... :-(

- Carsten

>
>
> Wanrong
>
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> Hi Wanrong,
>>
>> No, I think you need to find a different way around this.
>> For example by using a different keyword for the headings that  
>> contain the true TODO items.  I use PROJECT or something similar.
>> When you then search for TODO, the true tasks will be highlighted.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to highlighting only the sparse tree leaves, or  
>>> even better, highlighting the whole sparse tree but with leaves in  
>>> a special face?
>>>
>>> The motivation for such a feature is this:
>>>
>>> Suppose I have a task tree like this:
>>>
>>> * TODO Task A
>>> *** TODO Task A.1
>>> ***** TODO Task A.1.1
>>> * TODO Task B
>>> *** TODO Task B.1
>>> ***** TODO Task B.1.1
>>> ***** TODO Task B.1.2
>>>
>>> If I do a "org-sparse-tree", all those lines are highlighted,  
>>> giving an impression that I have a lot of open tasks, but in  
>>> reality I only have three tasks: A.1.1, B.1.1 and B.1.2, as the  
>>> higher level tasks are automatically done if those are done. So it  
>>> would be nice to highlight those leaves in a special face. Also,  
>>> suppose both B.1.1 and B.1.2 are done, then Task B.1 should be  
>>> highlighted as a leaf.
>>>
>>> Hope the above makes some sense. Thank you very much for giving it  
>>> a thought.
>>>
>>> Wanrong
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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