While in your org buffer do a C-c C-e t
You will now have a set of headers (as below). Specifically note the select and exclude tags directive. Now do a export and report what happens. Just to be sure, do a M-x locate-library RET org RET to make sure the path is right. #+TITLE: 1.org #+AUTHOR: Jambunathan K #+EMAIL: kjambunat...@gmail.com #+DATE: 2012-07-10 Tue #+DESCRIPTION: #+KEYWORDS: #+LANGUAGE: en #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:dvipng skip:nil d:t todo:t pri:nil tags:t #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export <=================== #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport <================= #+LINK_UP: #+LINK_HOME: #+XSLT: > (1) I extracted the latest tar.gz file downloaded from org-mode.org > (org-mode-9d16365c201201679b190c601c8d32e06530a21a.tar.gz) to /tmp/org-mode. > > (2) I loaded Emacs with "emacs -Q" and then entered: > > (setq load-path (cons "/tmp/org-mode/lisp" load-path)) > > into the scratch buffer. > > (4) I marked it and ran "eval-region". "M-x org-version" reported "N/A N/A" > instead of 7.8.11-1. > > (5) I then tried the minimal file and exported to LaTeX and it *STILL* exports > Headline1 and Headline2: > > ------------- > * Headline1 > * Headline2 :export: > ------------- > > (6) I repeated by evaluating: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/org-mode/lisp") > (require 'org-install) > > in the scratch buffer and exporting again. As above. > > I don't know what more I can do on this issue. > > > --