I can duplicate what you say. May be it is a bug... ps: Text is no text with no whitespaces. All along we have been focussed on text, when we should actually have been focussed on the whitespace (or in this curious case, the missing whitepace)
> SW <sabrewolfy <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I have an org-file with many headlines of various levels, but no tags. I >> tagged >> one top-level headline with :export: and exported to LaTeX with C-c C-e l. >> The >> tagged headline and everything below it was exported, but so was the first >> headline (and everything below it) in the org file, even though it did not >> have >> any tags. The *only* tag is :exported: on the headline I want exported. > > *A work-around:* If the first line of the Org file is blank/empty, *then* > *only* > the headlines with tag :export: are exported. Instead of: > > -------------------- > * Headline1 > * Headline2 :export: > -------------------- > > use: > > -------------------- > > * Headline1 > * Headline2 :export: > -------------------- > > *"Solved"* --