William Denton <w...@pobox.com> writes: > 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.
I'll have to make time for this. Thanks. -- David Masterson
