From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlef Steuer Subject: Re: Writing a dissertation using org-mode Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:58:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20100305095845.51b33121@gaia> References: <87vddcu22l.fsf@belvoir.org> <4B8F462D.1090702@gmail.com> <87d3zkvwmt.fsf@belvoir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NnTNU-0001VG-E7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:59:24 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51833 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnTNT-0001V6-Er for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:59:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTNS-0001zn-Jy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:59:23 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTNS-0001zg-Cn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:59:22 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnTNO-0003rh-5O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:59:18 +0100 Received: from gaia.unibw-hamburg.de ([139.11.181.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:59:18 +0100 Received: from detlef.steuer by gaia.unibw-hamburg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:59:18 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:12:42 -0600 Henri-Paul Indiogine wrote: > Good point, I am just worried about learning too many things (Emacs, > LaTeX, git, org-mode, R, ESS, ...) to take on new technologies. Writing > a dissertation is quite a load already. But I will into it. Don't worry about that. All these really fine tools (exactly my set of tools btw) share a common property: You'll improve your productivity from, say, day three. Of i.e. git I know may be 1% of the features. But I was going in no time. There will be the moments of 'oh, had I known this four weeks before', but that happens whatever art you learn! So, drop bibtex and choose one of the utf-ready alternatives and you have a very capable set of tools to write your dissertation (and beyond)! (Luckily mine was done a while ago, but org-mode would have made my self-organisation so much easier! And org-babel ...) Good luck Detlef