On Saturday, 2 Nov 2019 at 14:01, alain.coch...@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
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.6-552-g8c5a78
