Re: Make tag inheritance explicit

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

Hi,

* Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 5:24 AM Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>
>> Org-mode has perfect tag inheritance but unfortunately
>> the export methods I am using do export the tags only to the
>> headings they are assigned to and not to their sub-headings via
>> inheritance.
>
> Hello,
>
> I am curious how you are exporting. Are you exporting using subtree scope?

Always, yes.

> I am asking because I am using the exact same style of tagging for my
> posts, and I export using subtree scopes using ox-hugo,.. and I faced the
> exact same challenge.

My current export methods are: HTML, pandoc>docx, latex>PDF

> The trick is to:
>
> 1. Set org-use-tag-inheritance to t (temporarily in let so that it doesn't
> populate the user-set global value).

Check.

> 2. Use `org-get-tags-at' with point on "Task 1" heading in your example.
> `org-get-tags' returns a list of tags *only* at the current heading.
> `org-get-tags-at' returns inherited tags too.

You mean for developing a custom-made function that provides the
feature I was asking for?

Yes, this helps a lot to me.

First, I wanted to get a confirmation that this feature is not
already part of Org-mode because (as usual) this seemed obvious to
me when using export functionality ;-)

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