Re: Manual suggestion and experience report from a new user (citation processors, 9.5)

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:33:16 -0400, Leszek Wroński wrote: Guys, I've been using Emacs for about 20 years, but I'm only now starting to seriously explore the Org-mode, since I read about the new citation options. I'd like to report my initial experience since maybe this could lead to some

Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting

On Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:28:03 -0400, Uwe Brauer wrote: "JMM" == Juan Manuel Macías writes: Uwe Brauer writes: I searched about google, but it seems that the only way to have a 10 or 11 pt font size is, again, by using styles. Am I right? Yes, you are right. Word processors handle

Re: Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done

On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:47:11 -0400, William Denton wrote: When I've marked a TODO item as DONE and want to get it out of my projects list, I've always used C-c C-x C-a (org-archive-subtree-default) to get it out of the way. Today I had to go through the archive file to find an old note

Re: convert a org table to plain text

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:44:30 -0400, Uwe Brauer wrote: Hi What is the inverse function to org-table-convert-region? I am unable to find anything in the documentation or google. Regards We Brauer I tried M-x table-release as suggested by the documentation and did not get anything.

Re: bi-monthly steps.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:01:43 -0400, Michal Politowski wrote: Fortnightly :) Such a useful word. There are 24 semi-months in a year. There are roughly 26 fortnights. American English seem to allow the adverb semimonthly but generally avoids the British term fortnightly. There ought to be

Re: bi-monthly steps.

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:15:04 -0400, Nick Dokos wrote: "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their use of it is wrong :-) Exactly true. "Bi-weekly" is nearly as ambiguous, but is rescued by an

[O] Help? Orgzly check list boxes too small.

I've been using Orgzly and have been pleased with it, but I find the tiny checkboxes too small for my fumble fingers on my Pixel phone. I've not found any way to expandify the view. Am I overlooking some existing feature?

Re: [O] An Org-based productivity tool

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:03:15 -0400, Bingo wrote: Le 10 octobre 2018 21:45:53 GMT+05:30, Marcin Borkowski a écrit : - a warning when my efficiency is lower than a set value, and info about how much work I need to do to bump it up to that value. Nice, but it has an anti-feature. For

Re: [O] General advice beyond Org

On Thu, 17 May 2018 20:28:22 -0400, wrote: Hello, _I_ need help. I am in graduate school, and I keep having issues with my advisor for my strong inclination to use free software. I am obviously not in position to refuse, but she dislikes to have discussions about it.

Re: [O] does this pandoc error look familiar to anybody?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:30:13 -0400, Colin Baxter wrote: Adonay Felipe Nogueira writes: snip > Good academic and writting practice tells that headings shouldn't > be more than four levels deep. In LaTeX

Re: [O] Editing in two columns

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:01:25 -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Is there a way to edit with two columns displayed so I’m only editing and exporting the right hand column? I’m writing a parody of a poem, and I’d like to have the original in the left column for reference, to make sure

Re: [O] orgmode for many continuous tasks?

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:02:26 -0400, Mycroft Jones wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 07:14:25PM +0300, Melleus wrote: That's true. But the clipboard can't beep when you might have forgotten about some important appointment when shearing a sheep, driving a tractor or

Re: [O] orgmode for many continuous tasks?

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:21:51 -0400, Mycroft Jones wrote: I'm wondering if org-mode can do this: I have many tasks. Some are one off. But many are tasks that will take a period of time, days, weeks, months. I need to schedule a bit of time every day. Over

Re: [O] Org-table alignment in Arabic

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:16:26 -0400, wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am new to this email list about org-mode, first of all thanks to all contributors of org-mode. I am here seeking your help considering org-table and Arabic text, the issue is described in this post of mine

Re: [O] evil-mode and org

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:12:22 -0400, John Kitchin wrote: Using evil-mode is not "using vim" IMHO. I think this is a question of do you want modal editing or not (I suppose it could also be do you want emacs-lisp or vimscript, but that is not the impression I get these

Re: [O] evil-mode and org

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:57:40 -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've never used Vim but I see a lot of people online raving about evil mode and how much they love it. I'm considering giving it a whirl after the semester ends & I get some free time. I just wondered whether any heavy

Re: [O] Timezones revisited

On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:50:24 -0500, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Russell Adams writes: I understand that Org's timestamp format does not include timezone information. Making that change would be an impractical modification. I'm frequently

Re: [O] Clocking work time vs. office time

On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:08:38 -0400, Loris Bennett wrote: Eric S Fraga writes: On Friday, 29 Apr 2016 at 09:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: However, this does not help with my main issue: tracking /time in office/. Not /time in office working/,

Re: [O] exported table has text overflowing off the pdf page

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:18:09 -0400, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm running into problems exporting tables into latex with a 2-column 3-row table with a large amount of text to go into the cells, but when its exported the text is taking over and overflowing off the pdf

Re: [O] Stackoverflow in regexp matcher

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:19:43 -0500, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: "Loris Bennett" writes: re-search-forward("^[^%]*usepackage.*{biblatex}" nil t) This is a pathological regexp. [^%] is anything but a percent sign, so it can contain

Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:27:37 -0500, Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, color me deeply suspicious of the study. Indeed! The study touches only a few of the inherent difficulties in document production. Its major flaw is that it draws any conclusions at all recommending that

Re: [O] emacs24-starter-kit and Aquamacs 3.0

On Thu, 15 May 2014 10:28:13 -0400, Axel Kielhorn org-m...@axelkielhorn.de wrote: I should have asked earlier, but everyone was suggesting Aquamacs. Since I'm starting from scratch I don't mind switching and it will be easier to share my configuration with the Unix machine I sometimes

Re: [O] Tasks with lots of logbook entries are very slow

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:10:02 -0400, Pere Quintana Seguí p...@quintanasegui.com wrote: El 25/03/14 19:27, Marcin Borkowski ha escrit: Dnia 2014-03-25, o godz. 16:00:01 Pere Quintana Seguí p...@quintanasegui.com napisał(a): I log most of my work with org-mode. Some of my tasks are

Re: [O] Chaining strings between babel blocks: why so many '\'?

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:19:35 -0400, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: I've been playing with block chaining to generate some dot file then to export then as images. I had a little trouble finding the number of '\' I need

Re: [O] Using Org-mode for mass-scheduling appointments

On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:07:22 -0400, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl wrote: Dnia 2014-01-22, o godz. 12:55:43 Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl napisał(a): Hi list, I have the following problem: I want to schedule quite a few short (10 minutes, say) appointments with my students

Re: [O] org todos on paper?

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:44:52 -0500, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@gmail.com wrote: Its just a matter of time and the machine you use for shearing sheeps will be a kind of smart-phone too that peeps if you need more than the SCHEDULED time for one sheep, or the time for

Re: [O] org todos on paper?

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:23:26 -0500, Peter Salazar cycleofs...@gmail.com wrote: I keep meeting people who say they started getting more things done more efficiently once they started printing out their tasks lists, so they can have the experience of seeing the list on paper and, more

Re: [O] Org Tutorials need more structure

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:57 -0400, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: but I'm sure somebody else will think something is missing I'll admit that I've only dabbled in org mode thus far, but here's what I see as lacking in the tutorial documentation: 1. Non-video presentations for

Re: [O] What is the URL of orgmode license evidence

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:35:13 -0400, James Kang marchk...@gmail.com wrote: I know orgmode is under GPL but my search didn't turn up anything clear from orgmode.Org. I need this official information for an access. :-( Thanks Do these help? http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#Top

Re: [O] Support for a and p suffix for morning/afternoon scheduling

On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:45:14 -0400, Tom adatgyu...@gmail.com wrote: I use the scheduling prompt very often and I usually give times in 8pm/9am/etc. format, because they are conveniently short to type. Today it occured to me the m is unnecessary, because a and p already gives the necessary