From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@neuf.fr>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again!
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:26:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20EA118D-E909-47F4-AEF8-8B1B929F5601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5fzk5j5.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have spent the last 2 months (or more) working on a serious project
> proposal which required the production of a 30+ page document,
> including tables, figures, footnotes and cross-references. The
> preparation required working with 20+ people and managing a large
> number of tasks. I used org for the whole process and for the
> creation of the actual document.
>
> I just want to say *thanks* to all (Carsten, of course, but also all
> the others that have contributed to org and babel) as it made the
> whole process as painless as something like this can be!
>
> I used the following features:
>
> - outlining, obviously! very necessary as the document had a
> pre-defined structure imposed by an external party.
> - todo items, including in-line todos [1].
> - babel for figures and some in-line calculations
> - exporting, including to HTML (for conversion to Word via OOo) for
> allowing colleagues to edit text and to PDF for the actual delivery
> of the document (with very strict page formatting requirements).
> - version control, obviously, but not part of org, of course
>
> Everything worked (except for maybe the texi2dvi blip in the past few
> days) and did so incredibly smoothly! Org didn't get in the way and I
> could really concentrate on the content instead of the formatting
> etc. Brilliant!
>
> As an aside, I also had to prepare a new set of lecture slides for a
> course I teach. I used org, of course, with beamer support. Again,
> everything worked well. What was particularly nice this time was that
> this particular course requires showing Octave code and the outputs of
> such code. Babel, in combination with the listings latex package, is
> an ideal tool for this! My slides look (in my obviously biased
> opinion) incredibly professional.
Can you publish the slides? I'd like to take a look!
Maybe even with the source?
Cheers
- Carsten
>
> So, thanks all!
>
> eric
>
> PS - I now need to sleep for the next month or two... ;-)
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] If I have one niggle to report it is that indenting text after an
> in-line todo doesn't seem to work properly: it indents any
> subsequent paragraphs much too far, lining up with the headline
> text for the in-line todo. This seems conceptually wrong to me.
> Not a big deal, mind you.
This is clearly a bug. Nicolas, could you be persuaded to have a look
at that? You have worked on the indentation code reently in
connection with the plain lists.
If not, let me know and I will take a look at that.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-09 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 10:46 full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again! Eric S Fraga
2010-10-09 15:26 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-09 17:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-10 18:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-11 6:34 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-11 8:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-11 11:15 ` Paul Mead
2010-10-11 15:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-11 15:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-11 15:37 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-14 8:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-11 15:33 ` indenting after inline task (was Re: full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again!) Eric S Fraga
2010-10-14 8:16 ` full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again! Carsten Dominik
2010-10-10 17:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-11 8:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-11 9:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-09 16:48 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-09 17:15 ` Nick Dokos
2010-10-09 19:03 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-11 19:33 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-12 8:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-12 8:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-19 8:27 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-20 2:45 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-20 8:01 ` Sébastien Vauban
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