From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henri-Paul Indiogine Subject: Re: Writing a dissertation using org-mode Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:12:42 -0600 Message-ID: <87d3zkvwmt.fsf@belvoir.org> References: <87vddcu22l.fsf@belvoir.org> <4B8F462D.1090702@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NnEbR-00069A-TU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:50 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53389 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnEbQ-000684-QD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnEbP-0008T5-C4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:48 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:54827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnEbP-0008T1-7q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:47 -0500 Received: by vws5 with SMTP id 5so1365294vws.0 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:12:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B8F462D.1090702@gmail.com> (Torsten Wagner's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:33:33 +0900") 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 Torsten Wagner writes: > please consider that you might have to follow a very stricy layout > style depening on your university, department, lab or supervisor. If > your are lucky there will be a LaTeX template somewhere at your > university. If you are unlucky there is nothing like that or even > worse only a MS-word template. That is true. My university has a LaTeX template. However, it is in the previous version of LaTeX. I find that inexcusable. They should update it. It is not happening. I think I should make a formal complaint. > I'm not sure how good org-mode might be usable in that case. org-mode > is really great and I try to use it for many purposes. However, for a > thesis I would use directly LaTeX which gives me a bit more control of > what is going on. True, I probably will use org-mode as an intermediary step. I will use it to create my drafts and then at the end change to the university LaTeX template. That should not be too much work. > Furthermore, try biber [1] and biblatex [2]... the somehow next > generation of bibtex and bib-file compatible. For me they work very > well already despite of the fact that they are still > beta-versions. biblatex gives you much more freedom of formatting your > citations and bibliography... I guess both highly needed in your > scientific field. 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. Thanks, -- Henri-Paul Indiogine Email: hindiogine@gmail.com Skype: hindiogine Website: http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~enrico