Re: Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I think one of the reasons Org is so popular it is that it is a
> common-man's swiss army knife and not a elitist samurai sword.

And I think this is a very important analogy.  Org does a good job for
many (very different) tasks.  The price is that it does not necessarily
do some of those tasks as well as could be.

I am happy to put with the rough edges exposed by the exporters because
of what the whole package provides.  Case in point: I submitted a paper
yesterday which I wrote in org.  However, for the submission, once I was
happy with all the content, I had to tweak the latex to meet the
journal's format because they provide a style file which requires title,
author, etc. to come *after* the \begin{document}.  

I could have fooled org into doing the "right thing" but it was simply
easier to worry about this at the end and not get hung up with the minor
exporting issues involved.  By using org for writing (days, weeks) and
latex (5-10 minutes) for the final tweaking, my productivity was
probably as high as it will ever get for this type of task.

This is *not* an argument against an improved export engine in org,
simply a comment on perspective and relative importance!

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