Re: Spurious exporting of text before first header

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

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On 26.9.2013, at 13:26, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
>> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 
>>>> The spirit behind :export: is [...]
>> 
>>> I agree, this is a misfeature. This should be fixed in master.  Thank
>>> you for bringing it out.
>> 
>> Thanks as well. :-)
> 
> OTOH, this "fix" introduces another problem.
> 
> What if a user wants to both use :export: tag and export text before
> first headline? An almost equivalent solution for him would be to add
> a headline before that text and append it an :export: tag. But in that
> case, he will get the additional headline in the output, which isn't
> desirable. IOW, it is easier to make that text disappear than to make it
> appear.
> 
> IOW, even though the new behaviour is more logical, in the end, I'm not
> sure it is desirable. It's the old "good" versus "best" story.

The new behavior is the correct one.  :export: selects stuff to be exported.
A way to have initial text and some trees would be to add :noexport: to the
ones that should not be exported.

If there is string desire to be able to export initial text with :export: tags,
the only solutions I see would be an additional variable with an #+OPTIONS
equivalent, like org-export-force-initial-content.  Default obviously off,
setting the variable to t with list or customize not recommended, but
possible to set it on a per file basis with #+OPTIONS

- Carsten

> 
> WDYT?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou
> 


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