Re: How to move from inline tasks to drawers? [was: How to change the width of a latex exported inlinetask?]

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i use comments, sometimes with self-highlighted /emphasis/ or
self-highlighted fixme, or demote to a standard "x" task and use tasks
one level above.

if it is exportable, then i use non-task entries as the thing to
export and do not export any tasks.  this works pertty well.

on rare occasions i use inline tasks, but i have not gotten used tot
hem.  a long time ago, i catalogued a bunch ofthings needing fixing in
inline tasks tomaket hem more complete as an org feture, but couldn't
fix them so didn't post.

i guess i sort of didn't develop the habit becuase i didnt' remember
which features can be relied on.  maybe they have all been fixed by
now.  idk.


On 11/4/19, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I have been exploring the use of something I call editmarks for this
> (https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-editmarks.org).
> They are light-weight markups I usually use for commenting org
> documents, and they look like this.
>
> {>~ @jk this is a comment~<}
>
> {>*This is a task*<}
>
> with the minor mode enabled, these are syntax highlighted, and when I
> export a document they come out as todo notes in latex. I can run a
> command to see a list of all of these in a document, and for a big
> document like a proposal or report, there would be none at the end when
> it is done.
>
> It is a work in progress, and probably the 3rd such annotation solution
> I have tried. It is the best so far though, and I feel is pretty close
> to what I want.
>
>
> Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Saturday,  2 Nov 2019 at 14:01, Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr wrote:
>>> You also said that you had "already moved to using drawers for a large
>>> number of [your] inline task use cases, the ones that weren't really
>>> tasks!".  Is this consistent with your "almost completely" above?
>>> This leads me to the question of what precisely _defines_ a "task";
>>
>> Good question!  I guess, for me, a task is one that will appear in my
>> agenda so has a TODO state (possibly) and/or scheduling/deadline
>> information.  But the distinction is rather blurry.
>>
>> So, in fact, when I am working on a long document, I have tasks of the
>> "must improve this section" type which are not tasks for scheduling (the
>> whole document is itself a task) or "notes" for processing later (by
>> myself or by others involved in the same document).  I use drawers for
>> these types of activities.  I then use the export formatting options to
>> make the pseudo-tasks and notes appear differently in the exported
>> output, whether for sharing or for printing/display.  So, for instance,
>> I look for ":todo:" and ":note:" drawers.
>>
>> If the document I am working on is a coursework or test, I use drawers
>> for storing the solutions, e.g. a drawer called ":solution:"!  For this,
>> for instance, I have the following elisp in the document that is invoked
>> when I open the document:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (setq-local org-latex-format-drawer-function
>>               (lambda (name contents)
>>                 (cond ((string= name "solution")
>>                        (format "\\begin{mdframed}\\paragraph{Solution.}
>> %s\\end{mdframed}" contents))
>>                       (t (format "\\textbf{%s}: %s" name contents))
>>                       )))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> together with
>>
>> #+latex_header: \usepackage[backgroundcolor=yellow!10!white]{mdframed}
>>
>> to make the solution stand out clearly.
>>
>> The nice thing about drawers is I can turn them on or off for exporting
>> via the "d:" document option:
>>
>> HTH,
>> eric
>
>
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