Re: Excluding just heading from export

[Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> writes:

> is there any way of excluding just a heading from export, whilst exporting
> the text below it in the usual way? If I use :noexport: it does what it
> says in the documentation - prevents the entire subtree from exporting.
>
> For my current work though, I'd like to use headings to rough out a
> structure write notes - noexport is fine for this. Then in each section
> I want to export the final 'written up' version. I can separate those
> with different headings, but don't want the headings to show up in the
> exported text.
>
> Example:
>
> * Essay title
> ** Notes on paragraph 1  :noexport:
> These are notes which I want to remain hidden, including the heading
> ** Paragraph 1
> This is the text I want to see exported, but I don't want the heading
>

One hack would be to use an export hook to remove headings with a
particular tag. E.g.,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defvar my-org-export-remove-heading-tag "killtag")

(defun my-org-export-remove-headings-with-tag ()
  (while (re-search-forward (concat ":" my-org-export-remove-heading-tag ":") nil t)
    (beginning-of-line)
    (kill-line)))
      
(add-hook 
 'org-export-preprocess-after-tree-selection-hook 
 'my-org-export-remove-headings-with-tag)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best,
Matt