From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: dmg@uvic.ca
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: latex and org-mode
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:49:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <206972ED-5752-45F4-A725-9F3B90D4545E@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y70kje0t.fsf@uvic.ca>
Hi Daniel,
On Oct 20, 2008, at 2:39 AM, Daniel M German wrote:
>
> hi everybody,
>
> I am also a long time user of Latex (16 years). I use it mainly to
> author scientific papers.
>
> i followed the discussion about trying to export org files to latex
> files. I am also currently drafting in org (using latex macros in my
> draft, but no latex structure) and then move to latex. Once I move to
> latex I still keep the org file for TODOs and notes. I think trying to
> get org todo full latex authoring is not an easy battle (for example,
> trying to make a figure with 2 minipage environments in it, each with
> a table). Debugging latex in org is a nightmare because there is are
> no pragma __LINE__ instructions in latex (as far as I know).
>
> I was wondering the other day if it would be possible to improve org
> into using % as the first character in its lines. For instance, in an
> org file we currently write:
>
> ** TODO Call my mother
> SCHEDULED: <2008-10-19 Sun>
>
> How about allowing org to prefix the lines as follows:
>
> %** TODO Call my mother
> % SCHEDULED: <2008-10-19 Sun>
>
> All org commands will take into account a prefix and add one if
> necessary (for example when the task is scheduled). Org can then be
> used as a minor mode (in conjunction with auctex for example)
>
> This would be even useful for programming in languages that allow
> comment prefixing: i.e # , or if any prefix is allowed, any //
This is way too complex and too hard to implement, so it will not
happen.
- Carsten
>
>
> --daniel
>
>
>
>
>
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