Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 >
Aloha Carsten, Soon, I hope. I have to make them run as emacs batches first, a new thing for me. All the best, Tom >> 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 >> > > -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
