From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: org mode in press Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:06:08 -0700 Message-ID: <87ipjv92pr.fsf@gmx.com> References: <87ty3isusw.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> <6889.1327586596@alphaville> <87sjj15hpq.fsf@gmx.com> <4F23D898.3010202@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrBjO-0005bm-AZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:06:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrBjM-0006fC-Np for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:06:26 -0500 Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:46118) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrBjM-0006f2-GJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:06:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Dov Grobgeld's message of "Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:34:40 +0200") 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: Dov Grobgeld Cc: Christian Wittern , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dov Grobgeld writes: > I would also like to thank you for this great article and org-mode in > general. I learned a few things about variables and chaining that I did not > know about. Since I discovered org-mode, I have come to rely upon it as my > extended memory for professional as well as domestic ideas and problems > that I encounter. I keep one big notes.org file in which my first level > headlines is the current date, and my second order headline usually > contains a "Done/Todo" which is a checklist of things that I have to > do. Great to hear, happy it is useful even to those who already have Org-mode experience. > I also love the embedded code (though I wish it was possible to syntax > highlight it!), It is possible, just add the following to your Emacs configuration. (setq org-src-fontify-natively t) Cheers, > external links, and tables. > > Thanks again! > Dov > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 18:18, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > >> Aloha Christian, >> >> Thanks for your comments. It is great to have feedback. >> >> Christian Wittern writes: >> >> > I think this is an excellent article, introducing an aspect of >> > org-mode, which I think fills a gap that no other software I know of >> > comes even close to approach. I already started mentioning it in >> > conversations and am sure it will be very useful to many members of >> > the academic community. >> > >> > Just to make sure I could answer any follow up questions, I downloaded >> > the replication bundle and started installing the dependencies. I >> > encountered a few problems and hope this is the right place to discuss >> > them. BTW, I am working with this on a Mac OS X 10.6 machine. >> > >> > Most of the dependencies I already had or installed them from >> > macports. One problem I encountered was with installing the RSQLite >> > package. Executing the installation command from the README file did >> > not work because of permission issues, the command needs to run with >> > superuser rights. Is it possible to give these rights to commands run >> > from babel? Since I did not find a way to do that, I installed from >> > the R commandline, where I found that the name of the package is >> > RSQLite, not 'RSQlite' as given in the readme file. >> > >> > The one dependency I could not solve was the 'dot' executable. I >> > assume this is an interpreter for the dot language, for which it seems >> > the program on the Mac is named graphviz. However, I am not sure how >> > to make that work with org/babel. Should I simply symlink to >> > graphviz? Or is there a babel variable to be set? This is a point >> > that probably needs some explanation, at least for Mac users (I >> > realize that the articel might not have been intended as such a >> > general introduction with details for all common OSses, but it would >> > be nice if this can be gradually supplemented). >> > >> > One last remark; since this is an online publication, I think using >> > proper fontification for the examples and org source code would be >> > even more appealing, especially for people who encounter org for the >> > first time. >> >> Could you be more specific here? It might be obvious to others, but I >> don't understand what you mean by "proper fontification." >> >> All the best, >> Tom >> >> > >> > Keep up the excellent work!! >> > >> > Christian >> > >> > >> > >> > On 2012-01-27 23:43, Eric Schulte wrote: >> >> Hopefully this will serve as the canonical introduction to working with >> >> code blocks in Org-mode. >> >> >> >> As we acknowledge in the paper this work would not have been possible >> >> without the ideas and feedback of the Org-mode community, so thanks all! >> >> >> >> Nick Dokos writes: >> >> >> >>> Andreas Leha wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Hi all, >> >>>> >> >>>> this just came into my inbox: >> >>>> http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i03 >> >>>> >> >>>> Great work! Big thanks to the authors. >> >>>> >> >>> I remember reading it with great pleasure back when Eric posted it to >> >>> the list: beautiful stuff. I look forward to rereading it. >> >>> >> >>> Congratulations! >> >>> >> >>> Nick >> >>> >> >>> >> >> -- >> Thomas S. Dye >> http://www.tsdye.com >> >> -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/