On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:10 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
Tim Visher writes:

> Nice! I don't know enough about `org-export` but FWIW the use case I have
> is not to have an explicit `title` property but instead just the default
> title of the heading contents. I assume that's all handled transparently by
> the `(plist-get …` section.
>
> Do you have any idea the timeline for getting that patch merged?

It's been applied to master (f4b9f9808).  Please report back if you
still encounter the problem in your use case.

I (finally) got around to testing this out. Initially I thought it had been released in 9.4.5 but AFAICT that's not the case. Does org not get released from `master`?

Anyway, we're a step further now in that the title appears to be set using no markup, so that's 👍.

Unfortunately, the title now is essentially the exact text of the org heading, which is awkward in terms of readability for a general audience (and probably for SEO etc.). I know I said in my original message that I think stripping all the markup characters would be going too far but now I think I've come full circle and rendering the title as nothing but the plain text without any markup information feels like the right solution given what the title is supposed to convey.

So, would we be willing to accept a patch to that effect? :)