Re: LaTeX export - can't skip a heading level

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Using org-mode 7.8.03, I've found that exporting to LaTeX has a tough time
> if you try to skip a header level. For example, to prevent my TODO items
> being numbered, one method is to make them a lower-level heading, and then
> make that level un-numbered.
> 
> However, if I try the following:
> 
> * To Do List
> *** TODO First item
> *** TODO Second item
> 

Does this do what you want?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

#+OPTIONS: num:1

* To Do List
** TODO First item
** TODO Second item
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Nick

PS. Not sure why the third level headlines are skipped if the second level
headline is absent. This feels like a bug to me.

> Then when exported to LaTeX, only the title appears (both TODO items are
> excluded).
> 
> I tried make the first title one level lower, like this:
> 
> ** To Do List
> *** TODO First item
> *** TODO Second item
> 
> * Next Section
> 
> Now the TODO list exports, though it now treats ** as the section header,
> so it hasn't solved that problem, and moreover, the next section is
> omitted entirely.
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