On 30 December 2022, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Org's latex exporter is exceptionally capable. AFAICT, it doesn't have
practical limits on the LaTeX it produces, at least for my academic use case.
I'm able to use all of the LaTeX packages I've ever wanted to use.
Me too, and the more I use Org with LaTeX, the more I'm seeing how I can use Org
as a way to organize a large publishing project: use literate programming and
export the LaTeX piece by piece, documenting what I'm doing; use source blocks
to run necessary code to prepare images or files before inclusion; and so on.
Using Org (simple markup plus some +latex_header lines) and exporting to LaTeX
is straightforward enough ... managing a project, with the LaTeX as code to be
generated, can get a lot more complicated, but on the other hand, Org makes that
kind of thing simpler. (Of course, anything involving LaTeX is bound to get
complicated pretty soon.)
I've learned a lot from several regulars on this mailing list, including Juan
Manuel Macías, who does remarkable work on dictionaries and translations.
Here's an example:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-06/msg00348.html
Along with all the other recommendations, it's worth looking at the user guide
for the memoir class, which is great for books:
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/memoir
It'll be somewhere on your system as memman.pdf. I learned a lot about page
design and LaTeX from it.
Cheers,
Bill
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William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada
