Re: [O] proposal to have ignoreheading tags/properties

[Eric Schulte]

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Eric,  On 2014-06-12 at 20:46, Eric Schulte wrote: 
>> Can you suggest a more intuitive/appropriate tag name?  I'm not
>> personally partial to "inline", it was just the first thing that
>> occurred to me.  Previous implementations of similar behavior used
>> the tag "prelim". 
>
> I posted the following before. I think you might not be getting all
> the emails I post to the list. For example, I commented that INLINE as
> a TODO keyword didn't make sense to me using a similar explanation to
> your reply to that same email.   I have used your implementation from
> last week using "prelim" but changed the word, because as with
> "inline", I don't associate the word "prelim" with the behavior being
> implemented. 
>

Sounds like I'm missing something.

>
>  -k.
>
> I vote for the following tags:
>
> + :noexport: Does not export item, content, and children.
> + :ignoreheading: Does not export heading. Exports content and
> children.
> + :ignorecontent: Does not export heading or content. Does export
> children.
> + :ignorebranch: Does not export heading, content, or children.
> + :promotesubheadings: Promotes children headings, regardless of
>  exporting this heading or not
>
> Note that :ignorebranch: is the same as ":noexport" but is a more
> consistent naming scheme. Ignoring and promotion are two separate
> items
> and can be used together or exclusively for maximum number of export
> behaviors.

This feels excessive to me.  "ignorecontent" could more easily be
implemented with a leading ignored heading, and the common use case of
promoting a heading's children while ignoring the heading itself now
requires two tags with long names.

Best,
Eric

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