On 30.6.2011, at 08:35, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Karl, > > I agree that AucTeX is awesome. I use it every day at work with much > pleasure. > > I've been using Org-mode with the goal of creating reproducible > research, where the LaTeX output is just one part of the package. In my > case, this is something that requires Org-mode for its ability to pass > results between code blocks written in different languages. I can't do > these things in AucTeX. > > At first, like you, I was suspicious of adding a layer between me and > LaTeX. I was impatient with figuring out how to make the little things > work right. I'm still not able to control LaTeX as finely as I'd like > from within Org-mode, but I've managed to close the gap sufficiently > that my last four publications were authored completely with Org-mode.
Are these publicly accessible? I think that would be a great advertisement for Org as a publishing environment if you could link to source and paper.... - Carsten > The one I'm working on now is Org-mode, too. I'm really liking it as > an > authoring environment. > > All the best, > Tom > > > Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> writes: > >> * Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> wrote: >>> Aloha Rafael, >> >> Sorry, I thought you might as well be interested in my point of >> view. >> >> First: I am pretty new to Org-mode but I am using LaTeX a while now >> and I am even teaching LaTeX to motivated beginners. >> >>> Is there a reason not to have everything in one .org file? I find >>> Org-mode's ability to fold on headlines and to edit subtrees in indirect >>> buffers very convenient, even for long documents. For my work, that >>> functionality has replaced LaTeX \include files. >> >> I did not follow the thread here but I do think I get the idea that >> you want to replace LaTeX with Org-mode and generate a PDF via >> LaTeX/PDF-export functionality of Org-mode. >> >> On the one hand, I do agree that (simple) PDF documents are written >> very easily with Org-mode. But on the other hand you are going to >> add just another layer. This means that you probably end up wanting >> this LaTeX feature in Org-mode, that other handy LaTeX feature too >> and so forth. >> >> In my point of view, if you leave the basic stuff, you should stick >> to LaTeX. And I do have good news to you: You are very fortune >> because Emacs does have the IMHO most advanced editor support for >> LaTeX: AucTeX (with all of its extensions like preview-latex and >> RefTeX). >> >> I plan to use Org-mode as an outline tool for larger documents, >> where the basic structure evolves, keywords are moved from one part >> to the other. But before I start to write the detailed document >> content, I move to AucTeX, having the great possibilities for >> writing documents that end up being great PDFs. >> >> But this is just my point of view. > > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com >
