Re: [tip] Inline tasks as anonymous sections

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2022-01-08, at 12:32, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that a very efficient way to take advantage of inline tasks (in
> the framework of document authoring and exporting) is to treat them as
> anonymous sections, that is, those sections that do not have a title and
> are normally separated in books by some special symbol: three asterisks
> (a dinkus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus), an asterism (three
> asterisks forming a triangle), or any other fancy symbol. Users can
> associate their own export functions with the variables
> `org-latex-format-inlinetask-function',
> `org-odt-format-inlinetask-function', etc. Well, you can always add the
> separation symbol directly in your text, but the advantage of using
> inline task is that we can conveniently have those sections delimited,
> as real sections (with properties, todo states, etc).
>
> If anyone wants to explore this possibility, I am attaching a test org
> document. I have defined two LaTeX commands: \anonsectionbreak and
> \anonsectionmark; and the 'anonsection' environment[1].

I don't expect this to be useful for me personally, but I love the idea!

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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