From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: plain text best practice?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:33:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk8hxdo9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20120605223813.464454b5@tomsarchtoo
On Wed, Jun 06 2012, scrawler@gmail.com wrote:
> howdy guys,
>
> I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily
> have very many headings or sub-headings.
>
> I could do:
>
> * Chapter One
> lots of text
> * Chapter Two
> lots more text
Is there anything wrong with this approach? I've used Org for novel
translations, and do it just like this. If there are no logical
divisions within chapters you probably don't want additional markup, it
will just get in the way.
If navigation is the problem, getting accustomed to keybindings like C-c
C-n, C-c C-p, and C-c C-u can be very helpful. Also look at the
docstring for `org-cycle', and you might consider binding a few
outline-mode commands (like `hide-other') to your own keys, to help keep
navigation and visibility under control.
Keep it simple!
Eric
> or:
>
> * Chapter One
> - lots of text
> * Chapter Two
> - lots more text
>
> or:
>
> * Chapter One
> ** paragraph 1
> lots of text
> ** paragraph 2
> lots of text
> * Chapter Two
>
> ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format
> is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the
> first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but
> not as I write.
>
> Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode
> to just write? What do you do?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-06 3:38 plain text best practice? scrawler
2012-06-06 3:50 ` Christopher Schmidt
2012-06-06 4:02 ` William LÉCHELLE
2012-06-06 4:11 ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-06 4:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2012-06-13 14:39 ` Eric S Fraga
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