From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Hetzner Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 19:10:55 -0700 Message-ID: <55e7ac30.cd6d460a.c87b0.0994@mx.google.com> References: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> <55e67518.a931460a.631c4.6af7@mx.google.com> <87vbbtozkt.fsf@gmx.us> Reply-To: Erik Hetzner Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXJzU-000234-4J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 22:11:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXJzP-0000eR-Su for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 22:11:04 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::232]:33299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXJzP-0000dx-7t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 22:10:59 -0400 Received: by pacex6 with SMTP id ex6so24747387pac.0 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 19:10:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vbbtozkt.fsf@gmx.us> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rasmus Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Rasmus, On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:00:50 -0700, Rasmus wrote: >=20 > Hi, > > Thanks, I really enjoyed them. One technical question. Why do the flow > of the slides sometimes change from L=E2=86=92R to T=E2=86=92B? It's qui= te 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=E2=80=99m not a huge fan but I didn=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99s a good point, thanks! I=E2=80=99ll update the slides to incl= ude authors of all packages mentioned. > > Latex v. plain text > > [...] > > But the [ox] toolchains can be fragile [...] >=20 > {{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. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t be able to help = out with. best, Erik -- Sent from my free software system .