From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER [cont]
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:19:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m238ex8z2q.fsf@gorgonzola.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx7dbwqo.fsf@gmail.com>
On 2014-06-21 at 20:42, Aaron Ecay wrote:
> 2014ko ekainak 21an, Nicolas Goaziou-ek idatzi zuen:
>>
>> Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The first is that editing non-trivial latex code embedded in an
>>> elisp string quickly becomes tedious, whereas it’s much pleasanter
>>> in org using org-edit-special, syntax highlighting of src blocks,
>>> etc.
>>
>> This is a no-op since you only do it a limited number of times, i.e.
>> once for each document type.
>
> If you do it once, then it’s not a no-op, by definition. I think you
> mean that you disagree in the amount which you weight this as a
> concern, which is a reasonable opinion to have. But phrasing it in
> the way you did is inaccurate and rather curt.
>
> FWIW, in my experience latex (or any) code rarely flows from mind to
> keyboard perfectly in the first attempt; there is some period of
> revision, during which convenient editing matters.
It is not a 1x operation, it is a per-document operation. For example,
in my use-case that started this whole discussion, each publication
requires tweaking a dozen or more lines of biblatex config.
-k.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-22 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-19 23:37 BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER [cont] Ken Mankoff
2014-06-19 23:48 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-06-20 7:51 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-06-20 8:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-20 11:17 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-06-20 11:52 ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-06-20 12:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-21 5:43 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-06-21 8:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-22 0:42 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-06-22 2:00 ` [ANN] ox-extras (was: BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER [cont]) Aaron Ecay
2014-06-22 22:07 ` [ANN] ox-extras Rasmus
2014-06-22 22:08 ` Rasmus
2014-06-23 19:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-23 20:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-06-22 2:19 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2014-06-22 9:36 ` BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER [cont] Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-22 9:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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