[O] Tag hierarchy idea redux -- thesaurus -- Feature request

2011-07-14 Thread John Tait
Dear all Some time ago I floated a tag hierarchy idea for org-mode. It didn't gain much interest. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg01393.html What I've discovered since then is that I was trying to reinvent both a thesaurus concept and a controlled vocabulary concept.

Re: [O] Tag hierarchy idea

2011-03-22 Thread Christian Moe
Hi, There was some discussion of tag hierarchies in this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31882 It was largely inconclusive, except that it would be hard to implement. Noone took the ball and ran with it, but then noone came up with a strong use case or specification,

Re: [O] Tag hierarchy idea

2011-03-22 Thread John Tait
Thanks for your replies. I'm using org-mode both as an organiser and also as a way of composing modular documents with conditional text (controlled by both tags and #+INCLUDE). The problem I am trying to solve is one I encounter in my day job. Basically, I am sitting on top on hundreds of legacy

[O] Tag hierarchy idea

2011-03-21 Thread John Tait
Hi all This is my first post. First, I'd like to thank all the org-mode developers for a great tool. I'm a technical editor. I am facinated by the pros and cons of structured documents with regard to their ease of use and power. I think that they are probably far too restrictive and cumbersome