Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-15 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 15.05.2014 um 06:49 schrieb Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org: I removed explicit inclusion of these packages from this document and the instructions, because I wanted to reduce the work in terms of setting things up. You achieved the opposite. Now a user *has* to enable

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
May be I should specify the packages that are being called, so the user can make sure those are installed or modify the config file. But I prefer the basic set of LaTeX packages being called by default rather than being added in every file. This will be a problem when one of your

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-15 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 15.05.2014 um 06:49 schrieb Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org: I think starter-kit is a good choice. You will be up and running in no time. Just put it in place. Well, time moves differently around here. Since I use Aquamacs it took me over a day to get it working. A

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Vikas, On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:40:13PM +0200, Vikas Rawal wrote: It seems safer/efficient to focus on making modular documentation that is the definitive *best*/*right* way (and *best* explained) to do something, and then to link to that prolifically. Your points are very

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 12.05.2014 um 14:57 schrieb Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org: I have been using Org for writing research papers for a while, gradually improving my set up to be able to exactly produce the output I want. In this process, I have benefited greatly not only from the resources

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
Unless others feel differently, I would let the document float around the cyberspace, on my personal website and on github, for anyone to discover and use. I hate a good resource getting lost in the Internet. So I would like to suggest you make a shorter version for Worg, just focusing

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
Thank you Axel for taking the time to test it. I look forward to more comments as you look at it. You comments are very useful. I tried to export the .org to Latex and failed because it needed tabulary and threeparttable. They are used if you use vikas-general.org but as far as i

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 14.05.2014 um 18:51 schrieb Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org: Thank you Axel for taking the time to test it. I look forward to more comments as you look at it. You comments are very useful. I'm new to Emacs, but know LaTeX and Pandoc. I have a lot of beginner’s questions.

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
Thank you Axel for taking the time to test it. I look forward to more comments as you look at it. You comments are very useful. I'm new to Emacs, but know LaTeX and Pandoc. I have a lot of beginner’s questions. (Configuring emacs is quite difficult: should I use - custom-set-variable

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
Aloha Vikas, Very nice! Your document overlaps and updates the LaTeX export tutorial on Worg that I wrote for the old exporter. Perhaps it could be revised to replace the old export tutorial? There is some overlap. But I think there is a considerable utility in addressing people who

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread John Hendy
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org wrote: Aloha Vikas, Very nice! Your document overlaps and updates the LaTeX export tutorial on Worg that I wrote for the old exporter. Perhaps it could be revised to replace the old export tutorial? There is

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 14:57, Vikas Rawal wrote: I have been using Org for writing research papers for a while, gradually improving my set up to be able to exactly produce the output I want. In this process, I have benefited greatly not only from the resources available on the Org-mode

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
It seems safer/efficient to focus on making modular documentation that is the definitive *best*/*right* way (and *best* explained) to do something, and then to link to that prolifically. Your points are very valid and expressed convincingly. Writing this document was a result of, first

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
You mentioning pandoc as one of the tools to use made me finally sit down and look at it. I am very glad I did. Just today, I started working on a paper that has to be in Word format in the end. This is always annoying but especially when the paper has mathematics in it. I have been

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-13 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Vikas, Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: There is some overlap. But I think there is a considerable utility in addressing people who would need to be taken from installation of emacs to production of a full document. I'm in complete agreement here and hope you didn't

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Vikas, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 02:57:19PM +0200, Vikas Rawal wrote: I have put the draft for comments at: https://github.com/vikasrawal/orgpaper/blob/master/orgpapers.org Firstly a thank you for writing it. I gave it a quick cursory glance, seems nice and thorough, and very appropriate

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
For whatever it is worth, here it is. Pointers to any errors as well as comments for improving it would be greatly appreciated. Also, I would be happy to contribute it to Worg, if people consider it useful. Some comments: at places it seemed a bit too verbose, e.g. when you are

Re: [O] Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

2014-05-12 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Vikas, Very nice! Your document overlaps and updates the LaTeX export tutorial on Worg that I wrote for the old exporter. Perhaps it could be revised to replace the old export tutorial? Just a thought. All the best, Tom Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: For