From: Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 19:10:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55e7ac30.cd6d460a.c87b0.0994@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbbtozkt.fsf@gmx.us>
Hi Rasmus,
On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:00:50 -0700,
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks, I really enjoyed them. One technical question. Why do the flow
> of the slides sometimes change from L→R to T→B? It's quite confusing and
> makes it hard to go back and forth between slides (IMO of course). None
> of your slides seem optional.
What Jorge said. I’m not a huge fan but I didn’t bother to fix it.
Since I used org-reveal it looks easily fixed, see:
https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal#the-hlevel
> If find whom you choose to mention by name in the Org part particular.
> E.g. add-on authors are named, the original author isn't mentioned, but
> his profession is, ob is mentioned, but the main author isn't mentioned...
That’s a good point, thanks! I’ll update the slides to include authors
of all packages mentioned.
> > Latex v. plain text
> > [...]
> > But the [ox] toolchains can be fragile [...]
>
> {{citation needed}}
I was thinking in particular of the org -> pandoc toolchain. I agree
that org export is pretty rock-solid.
> > One thing that I came out of the conference thinking was that a
> > curated meta-package for Emacs (like elpy) that brought together tools
> > for scholarly writers (in LaTeX and markdown and org-mode) might be a
> > great help for Emacs beginners.
>
> IMO, we should aim to DISTRIBUTE the needed packages *within* Emacs and
> have SANE defaults. Even with package.el, maintaining software on a
> computer that you do not have full access to, can be a pain. The value of
> "batteries included" cannot be emphasized enough! Instead of adding
> another project to github, it would be better to fix it in Emacs.
>
> EmacsW32 is great in this regard 'cause it's a just a zip, which you can
> use even on constrained systems. I still have to install AUCTEX and ESS
> "manually", but at least package.el can handle compressed archives.
I think that getting a lot of packages into Emacs and changing the
defaults is a much bigger project, that I wouldn’t be able to help out
with.
best, Erik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-25 5:38 emacs & org mode for scholars questions Erik Hetzner
2015-08-25 13:51 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 15:04 ` Matt Price
2015-08-25 15:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-25 20:18 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26 9:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 10:39 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26 11:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 13:04 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 16:10 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-26 13:06 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-27 5:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-27 10:31 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 16:48 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-25 17:23 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-09-02 4:03 ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-02 10:40 ` John Kitchin
2015-09-03 2:00 ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-05 0:29 ` John Kitchin
2015-09-05 14:08 ` Thierry Banel
2015-09-04 6:44 ` Christian Wittern
2015-09-04 7:45 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 11:00 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 12:33 ` Xebar Saram
2015-09-02 12:51 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 13:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-02 14:53 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-03 2:10 ` Erik Hetzner [this message]
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