Hi All,<br><br>I&#39;m working on using org mode for my PhD thesis.  I&#39;d like to do this in one large file where each headline is a single chapter.  Naturally in a thesis there needs to be a lot of front matter: title page, abstract, signature page, etc.  Right now, I&#39;m doing this with something like:<br>
<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>#+begin_latex                                                                                                                                                                       <br>
  \doublespacing                                                                                                                                                                    <br>  \pagenumbering{roman}                                                                                                                                                             <br>
                                                                                                                                                                                    <br>  \maketitle                                                                                                                                                                        <br>
  \makeapproval                                                                                                                                                                     <br>                                                                                                                                                                                    <br>
  \begin{abstract}                                                                                                                                                                  <br>     blah blah blah....<br>  \end{abstract}                                                                                                                                                                    <br>
                                                                                                                                                                                    <br>  \tableofcontents                                                                                                                                                                  <br>
                                                                                                                                                                                    <br>  \pagestyle{thesis}                                                                                                                                                                <br>
  \newpage                                                                                                                                                                          <br>  \pagenumbering{arabic}                                                                                                                                                            <br>
#+end_latex<br><br>* Test Chapter 1<br>This is a test.<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>When I include the actual contents of my abstract, this preliminary material section (the #+begin ... #+end block) is rather large.  I&#39;d like to be able to put this material into a headline so that I could collapse it - but I don&#39;t want this headline exported as content of the main document.<br>
<br>In other words, is there a property or tag that I can add to a headline that causes LaTeX export to ignore the fact that it is a headline (i.e. \chapter, \section, \subsection, etc.), but still export its contents?  Something like:<br>
<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>* This is just preliminary material             :prelim:<br>
#+begin_latex                                                                                                                                                                      
<br>
 
\doublespacing                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
 
\pagenumbering{roman}                                                                                                                                                            
<br>
                                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
 
\maketitle                                                                                                                                                                       
<br>
 
\makeapproval                                                                                                                                                                    
<br>
                                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
 
\begin{abstract}                                                                                                                                                                 
<br>
     blah blah blah....<br>
 
\end{abstract}                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
                                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
 
\tableofcontents                                                                                                                                                                 
<br>
                                                                                                                                                                                   
<br>
 
\pagestyle{thesis}                                                                                                                                                               
<br>
 
\newpage                                                                                                                                                                         
<br>
 
\pagenumbering{arabic}                                                                                                                                                           
<br>
#+end_latex<br>
<br>
* Test Chapter 1<br>
This is a test.<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Chris<br>