Hi

the slides are really nice! are they done in org and beamer?

best

z

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> 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
>
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