is org ootb mma? for those of us who woul dlike to spend, like, zero time exporting, and then, like, less than a half hour fixing htat one thing that is irritating about hte output, with no errors? i can dream.
On 3/29/21, autofrettage <autofrett...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > Hi Ypo and the rest of you all, > >> After some years of using orgmode, and exporting using its defaults, I >> would like to take a quality leap and find a way of exporting for life. My >> options: LaTeX, ODT, HTML. > /.../ >> How do you think I should spend some hundreds (or thousands) of hours to >> achieve maestry exporting my documents? > > I have some odd thoughts about this. > > About 30 years ago I worked for a start-up company. As a young engineer, > freshly hooked on LaTeX, I tried to convince my colleagues we should produce > the users' manuals for our product with LaTeX. Since persuasive speech is > not one of my strengths, they opted for Word 5. > > For various reasons I stayed for only a few years. Recently I visited them, > and heard that the users' manuals had been ported hither and thither between > various wysiwyg DTP programs. They are now back in Word, and my former > colleagues didn't even remember the documents had started their journey > there! > > If they only had listened to me in the beginning! > > The moral seems to be that whatever time and effort you plow into learning > LaTeX, will not be wasted. Chances are that LaTeX will be there in thirty > years' time, working roughly the same as now. > > > Roughly. At a fine grain level, LaTeX -- not to speak about Org Mode -- is a > moving target. How on earth can you hope for attaining mastery at exporting > documents? Many individuals are continuously refining these tools, so the > mere mortals among us will always fight a losing battle keeping up. > > > Late adoption is a great trick for making life a bit easier. Postpone > teaching yourself the latest tricks, until other friendly internet citizens > have had time to write streamlined explanations ;-) > > > Last but not least, think like Bruce Lee: > > “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, > it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. > When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and > it can crash. Become like water my friend.”* > > So, teach yourself whatever you need now (where "now" includes a foreseeable > future). > > Cheers > Rasmus > > * LaTeX = ninjutsu, ODT = boxing, HTML = kick in the groin? > > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
