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From: Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:40:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAA0890-F121-49D9-B643-9891204F43E5@agrarianresearch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft9SokrY+uCmUA0ZXxSqa8qs0+8zoCiE=jG_Fb-gDN9FWw@mail.gmail.com>

> 
> It seems safer/efficient to focus on making modular documentation that
> is the definitive *best*/*right* way (and *best* explained) to do
> something, and then to link to that prolifically.
> 

Your points are very valid and expressed convincingly. 

Writing this document was a result of, first and foremost, a personal urge to write it, and secondly, in view of very specific use cases (my graduate students, to whom I wanted to provide a one-stop shop, before they explore rest of the stuff).

That said, your arguments that it is not optimal to include such a document as part of documentation on orgmode.org is perhaps right. I can see that maintaining modular non-repetitive content is easier. Long-term maintenance of documentation should be an important concern for something that is under heavy development. 

Unless others feel differently, I would let the document float around the cyberspace, on my personal website and on github, for anyone to discover and use.

Thanks for your very reasonable comments. 

Vikas

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-13 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-12 12:57 Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences Vikas Rawal
2014-05-12 13:26 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-12 19:36   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-12 21:00     ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-05-13 17:48       ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-13 18:15         ` John Hendy
2014-05-13 18:40           ` Vikas Rawal [this message]
2014-05-14 14:19             ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-14 16:02               ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-13 19:55         ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-05-13 18:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-05-13 18:52   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14  3:38     ` Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciencess Ken Mankoff
2014-05-14  7:00       ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14  9:02         ` Christopher Witte
2014-05-14 10:15           ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14 13:23         ` Ken Mankoff
2014-05-14 13:27           ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14 13:27           ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14 14:07 ` Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-14 16:51   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-14 18:39     ` Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-15  4:49       ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-15  8:18         ` Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-15  8:38           ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-15 11:57         ` Axel Kielhorn

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