From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ista Zahn Subject: Portability Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:16:00 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdod6-00082O-0r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:16:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdod4-0004K7-7N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:16:23 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:41839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdod3-0004Jx-Sp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:16:22 -0400 Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so4229020wwf.30 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:16:20 -0700 (PDT) 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 Mailinglist Hi all, Over the past couple of days I've been happily tweaking my org-mode settings. At one point something happened that gave me great pause. I forgot to load a function that adds an APA style LaTeX export (using apa6e.cls) to my org-export-latex-classes Alist. So of course when I tried to export using that class it did not work. This made me realize that my .org document depended on my .emacs file for export! This strikes me as a very bad thing because if I want others to be able to use my .org document I have to distribute (at least the relevant parts of) my .emacs along with it. So all this got me thinking that perhaps setting up lots of complicated org-mode related stuff in my .emacs is a bad idea, and that perhaps I should use a template to do the setup in each .org file. Please share any tips or suggestions you have related to this. What do you do? How well does it work? What suggestions do you have for someone just starting out with org-mode? Thanks! -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org