Re: LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning?

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

Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I want (in some cases) to use headlines for purposes of organization.
>  I want at least some of them to disappear in the output.
> 
> I could turn in a request for a feature, here:
> 
> #+OPTIONS: H:1 lower:nil
> 
> Or something else that would give the option that instead of automatically
> converting all lower order headlines into list elements, to ignore them
> entirely.

Have you tried setting org-export-latex-low-levels to nil? AFAIK, that
gets rid of everything, not just the headlines, but does it help at all
in your use case?

Nick

C-h v org-export-latex-low-levels says:

,----
| org-export-latex-low-levels is a variable defined in `org-latex.el'.
| Its value is itemize
| 
| Documentation:
| How to convert sections below the current level of sectioning.
| This is specified by the `org-export-headline-levels' option or the
| value of "H:" in Org's #+OPTION line.
| 
| This can be either nil (skip the sections), `description', `itemize',
| or `enumerate' (convert the sections as the corresponding list type), or
| a string to be used instead of \section{%s}.  In this latter case,
| the %s stands here for the inserted headline and is mandatory.
| 
| It may also be a list of three string to define a user-defined environment
| that should be used.  The first string should be the like
| "\begin{itemize}", the second should be like "\item %s %s" with up
| to two occurrences of %s for the title and a label, respectively.  The third
| string should be like "\end{itemize".
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----


>  Of course, the case may exist where one wishes to actually have a
> list converted as is, but lower level headings to disappear.
> 
> Thanks for the information about configuring converstion to \section{},
> \subsection{}, \paragraph{}, etc.
>