export TODO / DONE with different font face

Question

When I export TODO / DONE to pdf, it gets exported as large, bold font. I would like to export using regular font. (10 pts). Is it possible ? Kindly help.

Answer 1

The default org-latex-format-headline-function is:

(defun org-latex-format-headline-default-function
    (todo _todo-type priority text tags _info)
  "Default format function for a headline.
See `org-latex-format-headline-function' for details."
  (concat
   (and todo (format "{\\bfseries\\sffamily %s} " todo))
   (and priority (format "\\framebox{\\#%c} " priority))
   text
   (and tags
    (format "\\hfill{}\\textsc{%s}"
        (mapconcat #'org-latex--protect-text tags ":")))))

You can define your own org-latex-format-headline-function in your init file. There you can remove \\bfseries. You can also remove \\sffamily and do other modifications such like \fontsize{10pt}{15pt}\selectfont.

Here I give just the example with the deleted \\bfseries:

(defun my-org-latex-format-headline-function
    (todo _todo-type priority text tags _info)
  "My format function for a headline.
See `org-latex-format-headline-function' for details."
  (concat
   (and todo (format "{\\sffamily %s} " todo))
   (and priority (format "\\framebox{\\#%c} " priority))
   text
   (and tags
    (format "\\hfill{}\\textsc{%s}"
        (mapconcat #'org-latex--protect-text tags ":")))))

If you modified your init file you should re-evaluate it. If you don't know otherwise just re-start emacs. Afterwards you can customize the variable org-latex-format-headline-function by setting it to my-org-latex-format-headline-function.