From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: proposal to have ignoreheading tags/properties Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: <87tx7qxahl.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv9VN-0001qt-0Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:13:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv9VI-0001eX-IT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:13:40 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22e]:35400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv9VI-0001eF-D0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:13:36 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id m1so1751403oag.33 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:13:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Mark Edgington's message of "Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:49:31 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark Edgington Cc: emacs-orgmode Mark Edgington writes: > In using org-mode, there is one problem that has always irked me (and > is apparently also closely related to the FAQ "How do I ignore a > headline?"). When I am writing something, I sometimes want to group > things by concept or by work to be done, or any other number of > groupings. BUT I do not want these groupings to be part of the > exported document itself. In fact, I would like it to be as if the > grouping did not exist at all (i.e. a headline that is ignored). > > The problem with using an ignored headline for grouping things is that > it still does have an effect on exported document structure, in that > all of the elements contained "inside / in the scope of" the ignored > headline still keep their depth (one level deeper than the level of > the ignored headline). > > What I want is for the nested items to have their levels all promoted > by one, so that it's truly as if the ignored headline wasn't there at > all, and that it invisibly wrapped around a group of items without > requiring them to have a deeper level. Perhaps this could be done by > use of an "ignoreheading" and an "ignoreheadingpromote" tag (one > promotes the level of contained items, another doesn't), or some > equivalent set of properties that could be set on a headline. > > Would there be any chance that something like this could be built in > to org-mode? I think it would make it far more flexible in terms of > organizing things, making this organization process orthogonal to the > selection of sections/subsections of a document. > I just ran across this need myself, and updated an old solution to work with the new exporter. See the thread and my solution at the following. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-06/msg00238.html -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D (see https://u.fsf.org/yw)