From: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Properties Drawer versus tags
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:35:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFAhFSXhrR4dGX=OGLqBx8He69vizaShPb7Aq7Rxtqw7Q40KPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e2ryqip.fsf@gmail.com>
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I might add that a properties/drawer is a sort of "official heading
metadata repo," while tags not so much. It would be nice to see (lots of)
examples.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:18 AM Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-12-19 at 22:24 -08, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
> wrote...
> > Very simple, largely philosophical question: When/why use a properties
> > drawer below a heading versus just using tags on the heading? What are
> > the advantages, disadvantages of both?
>
> Tags are binary. They are there or not.
>
> Property drawers allow you to assign values to variables.
>
> I've never fully understood why some property drawers are set to binary.
> For controlling LaTeX export I have both a property ":clearpage: t" and a
> tag ":ignore:", and the tag makes more sense to me. Some of those may only
> exist in my personal config.
>
> -k.
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-20 6:24 Properties Drawer versus tags Lawrence Bottorff
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2019-12-20 6:46 ` David R
2019-12-20 6:47 ` Fwd: " David R
2019-12-20 11:54 ` Allen Li
2019-12-20 15:18 ` Ken Mankoff
2019-12-20 16:35 ` Lawrence Bottorff [this message]
2019-12-20 17:17 ` Adam Porter
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