From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rasmus Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:00:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbbtozkt.fsf@gmx.us> References: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> <55e67518.a931460a.631c4.6af7@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX5mr-0001go-Fm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:01:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX5mo-0004Hc-61 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:01:05 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX5mn-0004Gy-Vb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:01:02 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX5mk-00067i-JW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:00:58 +0200 Received: from 62.80.108.9 ([62.80.108.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:00:58 +0200 Received: from rasmus by 62.80.108.9 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:00:58 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, Erik Hetzner writes: > http://www.e6h.org/talks/emacsconf-2015/index.html 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. 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... > Latex v. plain text > [...] > But the [ox] toolchains can be fragile [...] {{citation needed}} > 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. Thanks, Rasmus -- May contains speling mistake