Dnia 2013-03-11, o godz. 13:30:41 tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) napisał(a):
> Hello Thorsten, > > Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Actually the topic is not exactly OT, I'm looking for a > > "meta-system" which helps me to keep all those different things > > together. Hopefully, in a way which allows me to generate different > > kind of course material from the same sources. > > I was wondering, can org-mode be such a "meta-system" e.g. could I > > keep materials of a certain topic within a single org-file and use > > (customized) exporters to create the desired outputs like a > > interactive HTML version, a printable PDF, exercises and questions > > for exams? > > > > E.g. a file structure like this > > > > * Theory > > text text text > > > > ** Interactive example :HTML > > Bable code > > > > ** more theory in detail > > *** Images > > > > ** lecture slides :BEAMER > > > > ** Exercises > > *** Solutions > > > > ** Exam questions > > *** 1 > > *** 2 > > *** 3 Hi all, I am quite new here - I subscribed to this list just yesterday - but I read the OP in this thread on the web (in fact, I've sent a private email to Torsten; for the sake of completeness, let me repeat the link I've given to him here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22269/comparing-packages-which-facilitate-typesetting-exercises-and-solutions-exercis). Also, here is something which some of you might find interesting: http://acrotex.net/ (tl;dr: it is a LaTeX-based, partly free, partly commercial suite for producing educational materials, among others interactive pdfs, and maintaining exercise databases). In fact, I am not personally interested in Org-mode's LaTeX export - being an Org-mode user for a little more than one year (or so) and a long-time TeX user (almost 20 years), I'm comfortable authoring in LaTeX. I even did try to write a paper in Org, but soon moved backed to LaTeX, where I seemed to be much more in control (which might not be objectively true, but that is what I felt). That said, I find Org-mode's note-taking/outlining and task management features really, really great - I'd like to thank all developers for this great tool! And to get on-topic: I'd be very glad to see your setup, being also an academic teacher. Also, an interesting (I guess) thought struck me today. While (as I said) writing LaTeX documents in Org-mode feels awkward for me, developing LaTeX packages using Org's "Babel" features seems like a great idea. In the LaTeX world, /the/ tool for developing packages is the docstrip "suite", which lets the developer have the code and docs interspersed in one .dtx file (literate programming) and also create a few files, optionally sharing some code (denoted by special tags in the .dtx file), from one source, with instructions to do this in an .ins (installation) file. I imagine that Org-mode might make this process much more convenient, due to its features, like structure folding, hyperlinks, exporting etc.; what's more, I think that (at least) one thing might be actually easier in Org-mode than in docstrip, namely testing (I imagine having source code, comments, tests and example LaTeX files all in one Org-mode file, and being able to tangle the code, install it, compile an example and start a pdf viewer all with one keystroke.) (This is obviously possible just in Emacs + AUCTeX and .dtx file, by means of some customization and simple elisp programming, but my guts tell me that it might be a natural application of Org-mode exporting feature.) Please tell me whether the above paragraph makes any sense to you; if yes, I might start thinking about how such a system might be implemented. (A necessary feature would have to be actually creating "traditional" .dtx/.ins pair of files to make it possible to install all this without emacs - some TeXackers are somehow happy with inferior editors;).) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
