Re: using org for meeting agendas and minutes?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:44:55PM +0000, Pete Phillips wrote:
>> Hi Adam
>>
>> Did you get anywhere with the ideas of taking minutes etc ?
>
> I didn't have much feedback yet, but I did actually produce some
> minutes in HTML using org.  However I found it quite a struggle due to
> one or two things, e.g.
>
> ** This is some subtopic of the main agenda/minutes structure which
>   has some initial explanatory text taking more than one line.  The
>   text fill functions won't work nicely, and the first line will be
>   treated as a heading, even though I don't want the subtopic to have
>   any heading.
> *** Likewise the problem exists in this sub-subtopic where again I
>    don't want any heading.
> **** ACTION but I couldn't change the above to nested list items,
>     because then I couldn't have them contain TODO items such as this
>     action.
>
> Is there any way to have heading-less subtopics in org, where multiple
> lines in the source document are treated as part of one paragraph, can
> be re-filled to a given line wrap, and formatted accordingly during
> export?

Plain lists sort-of do this.

- Carsten