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Subject: Re: BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER [cont]
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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.