From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: How to move from inline tasks to drawers? [was: How to change the width of a latex exported inlinetask?] Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:14:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <23997.32316.900106.897373@frac.u-strasbg.fr> <871rupax29.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRik4-00022V-Mb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:14:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRik3-0007F8-Ao for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:14:24 -0500 Received: from mail-qk1-x72a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::72a]:37711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRik3-0007Ex-6r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:14:23 -0500 Received: by mail-qk1-x72a.google.com with SMTP id e187so6202156qkf.4 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:14:23 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <871rupax29.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: "Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr" 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 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 -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu