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From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: not exporting TODOs but exporting their subordinates
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:14:40 +0200
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To: Sam Cramer <samcramer@gmail.com>
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Sam Cramer <samcramer@gmail.com> writes:
> When working on a document, I tend to sprinkle TODO headlines throughout the
> doc.  These are really very loosely structured; they just represent things
> that I need to do somewhat near the area that I'm looking at.
>
> I mark these lines with a :noexport: tag in order to prevent them from being
> exported.  As such, they're not part of the document structure per-se, and I
> often mark them as top level headlines.  Since EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS applies
> to a tree and not to a title, this prevents the export of any subordinate
> items.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> * An amazing headline
> ** stuff
> ** more stuff
> * TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport:
> ** this is stuff that I would like exported
>
>
> In the example above, I'd like to have the everything but the TODO headline
> exported, including the "this is stuff I would like exported" line.
>
> I guess that I could always have my TODO lines be at a very deep level.  Is
> there any other solution I should consider?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam

Here's my proposal:


 * An amazing headline
 ** stuff
 ** more stuff
 ******* TODO clean up the stuff above :noexport:
 ** this is stuff that I would like exported

Or just use inline tasks.  They are made for this purpose.


  Sebastian