From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Large LaTeX project in single file or using publishing
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:41:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sih3hxcq.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjbd0xam.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk>
On 2014-11-27, at 11:09, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 at 19:00, Jacob Gerlach wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm starting writing my thesis, for which I hope to remain in org-mode
>> rather than regular LaTeX.
>
> I would encourage this. Although I have been using LaTeX for almost 30
> years, I now do all of my writing in org with the odd LaTeX directive
> when necessary. With all the various LaTeX helper bits in org
> (e.g. preview), there is little advantage to writing directly in LaTeX
> any longer.
On the contrary: Org-mode (however I like it) does not have the
functions and keybindings that make writing LaTeX in AUCTeX so
pleasant. C-c C-e can be simulated by speed keys to enter special
blocks (to some extent, at least), but AFAIK there's no equivalent of
C-u C-c C-e, nor (C-u) C-c C-f, nor C-c C-l with C-x ` (and probably
some others I forgot about).
BTW: are there any plans to support similar thing in Org? Maybe not in
the core, but some kind of "plugin" in contrib? Like: convert region to
italic/bold, or enter a special block with autocompletion (e.g., based
on other special blocks in this very file), or change the surrounding
special block to another one?
OTOH, I don't try to convert anyone to using LaTeX; I'm only saying that
there are valid reasons to use LaTeX over Org, at least in some cases.
Though I would guess that they mean anything only for seasoned
LaTeX/AUCTeX users: if you have invested over half of your life in
learning TeX/LaTeX, and over a third of your life to learn AUCTeX,
switching and having to fight your muscle memory is not an easy
option;-). (And probably for some very special cases, too, where you
have to manually tweak a lot of things with low-level TeX code, for
instance.)
> For me, the killer feature is the ability to put inline tasks in the
> document so that I know what I need to work on without having to have a
> separate task list or todo items within my general day to day task
> list. Then a simple "C-c / t" shows me all the tasks for the current
> document.
And that is insanely cool, I have to say. (Though one can M-x occur in
LaTeX - not the same, but close.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 19:00 Large LaTeX project in single file or using publishing Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-26 19:31 ` Scott Randby
2014-11-26 19:47 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-11-27 7:51 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-27 9:26 ` Andreas Leha
2014-11-28 20:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-28 21:36 ` Andreas Leha
2014-11-28 22:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-29 0:21 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-11-29 2:20 ` Andreas Leha
2014-11-29 3:48 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-11-29 11:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-29 17:30 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-11-29 22:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-27 10:09 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-11-28 20:41 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-11-28 20:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-11-29 2:38 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-29 3:23 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-12-03 20:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-11-27 11:43 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-11-28 17:40 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-11-28 18:49 ` Melleus
2014-11-28 20:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
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