Org-mode inlinetask neither exporting nor archiving correctly

Question

I use emacs a lot and have been using Org-mode more and more. One of the killer features for me is the inlinetask. These are TODOs which can be placed anywhere in a document without being a part of the document structure. I think of them as virtual sticky notes.

There are two problems that I've found that I can't solve:

1. an inline task at the end of a paragraph will cause the preceding paragraph to be merged with the proceeding paragraph when exporting (to ASCII, for example). Is there any way to fix this?

   For example, If I start out with the following:

   #+TITLE: 
   #+OPTIONS: inline:nil toc:nil author:nil
   
   Here is paragraph one. It has some
   mistakes so I need to make some changes.
   *************** TODO revise
   *************** END
   
   Here is paragraph two. I want it to
   remain a separate paragraph.
   

   Then I would expect this when I export

   Here is paragraph one. It has some mistakes so I need to make some
   changes.
   
   Here is paragraph two. I want it to remain a separate paragraph.
   

   But I get this:

   Here is paragraph one. It has some mistakes so I need to make some
   changes.
   Here is paragraph two. I want it to remain a separate paragraph.
   

   This problem is even more obvious when exporting to LaTeX because the two paragraphs will flow together with no obvious space between them.

2. inline tasks can't be archived. When I try to archive an inline task, I get an error: "The kill is not a (set of) tree(s)". Is there any way to archive inline tasks? The documentation notes:

   Also, if you want to use refiling and archiving for inline tasks, The END line must be present to make things work properly.

   All of my inline tasks have an END line, but I still get the error.

Answer 1

I can only respond to the 2nd part of your question. Inline tasks are not part of the Org tree structure. So it cannot be archived. To archive them, you need to archive the parent tree. A work around might be to create a temporary tree that contains the inline task and archive it.