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Subject: Re: plain text best practice?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:02:45 -0400
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I'd go the first way if you don't need/use much markup, but if you want to
structure more deeply your document, you can have subheadings without actually
giving them a title (just the stars and a blank space are enough for a heading)

It's also a matter of what you want to do with the document, if you plan to
export it, the subheadings will change the result in ways you may like or dislike.

(You don't seem to have any usage of lists, so simply don't go for them.)

At Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:38:13 -0500,
scrawler@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> howdy guys,
> 
> I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily
> have very many headings or sub-headings.
> 
> I could do:
> 
> * Chapter One
>  lots of text
> * Chapter Two
> lots more text
> 
> or:
> 
> * Chapter One
>   - lots of text
> * Chapter Two
>   - lots more text
> 
> or:
> 
> * Chapter One
> ** paragraph 1
>    lots of text
> ** paragraph 2
>    lots of text
> * Chapter Two
> 
> ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format
> is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the
> first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but
> not as I write.
> 
> Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode
> to just write? What do you do?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
>