From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Org-mode as a replacement for LaTeX (was: Fwd: Exporting latex without preamble) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <2011-06-29T22-26-24@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <87zkl1tv44.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53597) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc1Uj-0005x8-8e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:36:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc1Uh-0001EP-9w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:36:21 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc1Ug-0001E9-Mf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:36:19 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc1Ua-0000eB-R2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:36:12 +0200 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:36:12 +0200 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:36:12 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Rafael, Sorry, I thought you might as well be interested in my point of view. First: I am pretty new to Org-mode but I am using LaTeX a while now and I am even teaching LaTeX to motivated beginners. > Is there a reason not to have everything in one .org file? I find > Org-mode's ability to fold on headlines and to edit subtrees in indirect > buffers very convenient, even for long documents. For my work, that > functionality has replaced LaTeX \include files. I did not follow the thread here but I do think I get the idea that you want to replace LaTeX with Org-mode and generate a PDF via LaTeX/PDF-export functionality of Org-mode. On the one hand, I do agree that (simple) PDF documents are written very easily with Org-mode. But on the other hand you are going to add just another layer. This means that you probably end up wanting this LaTeX feature in Org-mode, that other handy LaTeX feature too and so forth. In my point of view, if you leave the basic stuff, you should stick to LaTeX. And I do have good news to you: You are very fortune because Emacs does have the IMHO most advanced editor support for LaTeX: AucTeX (with all of its extensions like preview-latex and RefTeX). I plan to use Org-mode as an outline tool for larger documents, where the basic structure evolves, keywords are moved from one part to the other. But before I start to write the detailed document content, I move to AucTeX, having the great possibilities for writing documents that end up being great PDFs. But this is just my point of view. -- Karl Voit