Re: [Orgmode] Omit top level heading in latex export?

[suvayu ali]

On 3 October 2010 08:49, Indraneel Majumdar <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 2010-10-03 21:12, suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>> On 3 October 2010 08:31, Indraneel Majumdar<address@hidden>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2010-10-03 20:57, suvayu ali wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 3 October 2010 06:31, Indraneel Majumdar<address@hidden>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running into a problem with latex export. I have several essays
>>>>> under
>>>>> a
>>>>> top level heading "Essays". How can I export say only one essay without
>>>>> the
>>>>> top level heading "Essays" also showing up in the output as a
>>>>> "Section"?
>>>>> I
>>>>> want the heading of my essay to be displayed as a latex section. Is
>>>>> this
>>>>> possible in any simple way? The manual describes some option to define
>>>>> my
>>>>> own class in the .emacs file, but I couldn't understand that very well.
>>>>> eg.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Essays
>>>>> ** Essay One
>>>>> ** Essay Two
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to export only "Essay Two" (eg with a :export: tag) and don't
>>>>> want
>>>>> "Essays" to show up.
>>>>>
>>>> What about just exporting the subtree you want? I believe the way to
>>>> do that is to go to the subtree and while exporting limit the export
>>>> with `1'. Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>> Yes, that exports the subtree (Essay Two) and also exports "Essays" (but
>>> not
>>> "Essay One"). I do not want "Essays" to show up at all.
>>>
>> In that case you can try the `noexport' tag on the top level headline
>> with this header `#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport' option. I just
>> tried it, seems to work pretty well.
>>
> Does not work for me. It blocks out the entire tree, even if I have :export:
> on "Essay Two". From the manual, it seems that is how it should be.

Could be a result of some setting in my setup. Only remotely relevant
variable I could find was `(setq org-hierarchical-todo-statistics
nil)'. I don't usually export my trees except for beamer
presentations. Not sure what else you could try. Sorry. :(

>>>
>>> Indraneel
>

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