Re: How to move from inline tasks to drawers? [was: How to change the width of a latex exported inlinetask?]

[John Kitchin]

I have been exploring the use of something I call editmarks for this
(https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-editmarks.org).
They are light-weight markups I usually use for commenting org
documents, and they look like this.

{>~ @jk this is a comment~<}

{>*This is a task*<}

with the minor mode enabled, these are syntax highlighted, and when I
export a document they come out as todo notes in latex. I can run a
command to see a list of all of these in a document, and for a big
document like a proposal or report, there would be none at the end when
it is done.

It is a work in progress, and probably the 3rd such annotation solution
I have tried. It is the best so far though, and I feel is pretty close
to what I want.


Fraga, Eric <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday,  2 Nov 2019 at 14:01, address@hidden 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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