From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again! Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:26:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20EA118D-E909-47F4-AEF8-8B1B929F5601@gmail.com> References: <87r5fzk5j5.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59717 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4bNF-00021k-8s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:30:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4bJw-0003Cc-4x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:26:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:59405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4bJw-0003CQ-0S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:26:48 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so1295883ewy.0 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r5fzk5j5.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga , Nicolas Goaziou Cc: org-mode mailing list 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