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Renier Marchand <renierm@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> It seems that the reason this does not work for Chris Malone is that if the 
> heading tagged with :prelim: is preceded with a heading tagged with :noexport: 
> then the content of the prelim section is in effect not exported. 
> 
> For this example
> 
> * My setup							   :noexport:
>   Some org-mode setup commands that should not be exported
> * Preliminary material						     :prelim:
> 
> Some preliminary material
> 
> * Point one
> 
> Text in point one
> 
> * Point two							     :prelim:
> 
> Text in point two.
> 
> * Point three
> 
> Text in point three.
> 
> The following is exported
> 
> Table of Contents
> 
> 1 Point one
> 2 Point three
> 1 Point one
> 
> Text in point one
> 
> Text in point two.
> 
> 2 Point three
> 
> Text in point three.
> 
> Date: 2012-09-27 11:04:36 SAST
> 
> Author: Renier Marchand
> 
> Org version 7.6 with Emacs version 23
> 
> Validate XHTML 1.0
> 
> Note the absence of the text before the table of contents.
> 

I can't reproduce this. I get correct behavior in all cases I've tried:
with both the old and the new exporter, html, latex and ascii.

What version of org are you using? 

Mine is

Org-mode version 7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-348-gea7baa @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/)

Nick