From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mohamed Subject: Re: Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWpnp-0000zw-Iq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:15:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWpnj-0002Ez-8g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:15:41 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWpni-0002EE-UW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:15:35 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UWpnb-0000vw-98 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:15:27 +0200 Received: from 163.116.6.12 ([163.116.6.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:15:27 +0200 Received: from mohamed.hibti by 163.116.6.12 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:15:27 +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 James Harkins gmail.com> writes: > > Actually, let me take a few steps back from my specific question about > the title command. There are some other workflow questions that might > make that question redundant. > > This journal (for some reason unknown to me) has designed the > publication format in MS Word, and there are some specific > requirements. So I have a couple of choices: > > - Export to LaTeX, and try to reproduce their layout (likely with a > new document class based on "article"). That's a chunk of work, but > they also confirmed that I could send PDF as long as it follows the > style guidelines. > > - Export to ODT. This is probably simpler for setup -- I'd probably > just need to change some of the names of paragraph or character > styles in their template so that org can find them for section > headings, abstract etc. But... there is more risk of the formatting > breaking. If I send .odt, MS Word might choke on it, or similar > if I resave my .odt as .docx. (The word online is that LibreOffice > does not do well saving docx.) > > Or, export to ODT and let LibreOffice turn that into a PDF. I hesitate > to do this, when LaTeX is a far superior typesetter. (But, tweaking > all the formatting details in LaTeX is quite likely to give me some > more gray hairs...) > > Advice? Thanks -- > hjh > > I used both aproaches : - Usually I customize the org options (latex templates) to meet the requirements of the final document. It is convenient for me to stay in emacs. For the gray hairs, you do it once and thus you have minor modifications. - But sometimes when I work with other colleagues I need to have something more common, odt seems fine but as you mentioned you may have to add a final manual toutch to be sure your document can be modified by the others. Regards,