Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

Thanks, John.

I was really blown away by org-ref. It’s a great package. I love, for
instance, the citation displayed in the minibuffer when the cursor is
on a cite. If you need help with the MELPA packaging process, let me
know.

best, Erik

On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:40:42-0700,
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Cool! Thanks for the shout out to org-ref!
> 
> my jmax starter package (http://github.com/jkitchin/jmax) is basically
> designed for the last point you described. I use it with students (41
> this semester!) as a standalone "package". It isn't as polished as
> prelude or others, but it allows them to do things like I do out of the
> box.
> 
> The conference sounds like it was fun! Best wishes,
> 
> Erik Hetzner writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for all your responses! They were a great help when putting
> > together my talk. I’ve posted my slides from EmacsConf 2015 here:
> >
> >   http://www.e6h.org/talks/emacsconf-2015/index.html
> >
> > I think the planners are planning to post videos as soon as they can
> > get them edited to
> >
> >   http://emacsconf2015.org/
> >
> > EmacsConf 2015 was a lot of fun. Almost everyone there was an Org mode
> > user, which was no great surprise.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > best, Erik
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:38:30 -0700,
> > Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am going to be giving a talk on how Emacs can help support scholars,
> >> especially those who are using plain text and doing reproducible
> >> research, at “Emacsconf 2015” in San Francisco this Saturday (the
> >> 29th).
> >>
> >> I have done some work on managing references using Emacs & pandoc, but
> >> what I’d like to focus on in this talk is why Emacs is a great tool
> >> for scholarly writers (both scientists and humanists) and what Emacs
> >> developers should be concentrating on to make it an even better tool
> >> for the scholarly community.
> >>
> >> I’m wondering if you any of you might have any suggestions about what
> >> you would like to see Emacs do better to support the scholarly writing
> >> community.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help you can provide!
> >>
> >> best, Erik Hetzner
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
> 
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