On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:43 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

> Tim Visher writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:19 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
> >> Thanks for reporting.  Is this addressed by the in-progress series at
> >> <https://orgmode.org/list/87o8hwpz34.fsf@gmail.com/>?
> >>
> >
> > IIUC yes. I believe the following section of the diff should address it.
> [...]
> > If I'm reading the code correctly, `org-html-plain-text` is a specialized
> > form of converting org data into a plain text string with no markup. If I
> > have that correct then I believe you're right.
> >
> > Is that your read as well?
>
> Yep.  And as a light test:
>
>     #+title: a *b* c
>
> exports
>
>   <title>a *b* c</title>
>
> rather than
>
>   <title>a <b>b</b> c</title>
>

Nice! I don't know enough about `org-export` but FWIW the use case I have
is not to have an explicit `title` property but instead just the default
title of the heading contents. I assume that's all handled transparently by
the `(plist-get …` section.

Do you have any idea the timeline for getting that patch merged?