Hi Bill,
On 2022-01-29 at 12:39 -05, William Denton <w...@pobox.com> wrote:
I wrote up how to use Org to write letters with the LaTeX letter class. Here's
the link in case anyone's interested:
https://www.miskatonic.org/2022/01/28/latex-letters-in-org/
Cool, I'll try to remember this for when I write my next letter. You write
I found it safest to use the #+latex: way of including LaTeX fragments. It
doesn’t mess up the syntax highlight or the exporting.
When I have multiple lines of latex, I prefer including a latex export block
over multiple `#+latex` lines, e.g.
#+begin_export latex
\closing{Sincerely,}
\ps{P.S. I need not tell you this is a secret. Good-night again.}
\end{letter}
#+end_export
If you have `org-src-fontify-natively' to `t', this will even get you latex-syntax
highlighting within the block, or if you find that too distracting, you can set that
variable to `nil'. Sometimes it's useful to edit the latex-block in your latex major
mode via `org-edit-export-block' (<C-c '>).
Currently the number of org export options you need is not too high, but if it
grows you can move boilerplate of the letter itself via either `#+setupfile:`
or just including a separate latex file. I'm think if there's a way to adapt
the latex class
For not using the title, via not set `#+options: title:nil' ?
For this kind of short writing I'm always wondering whether doing it in
org-mode is really worth it. I see a trade-of between the convenience of
org-markup (e.g. emphasis markers, itemize lists, links, …), and the
inconvience of adding literal latex to org-mode, which is just a bit more
cumbersome than doing so in an actual latex file with a latex major mode*.
Especiall since you don't use headers anyway. If I do some writing where the
transition between notes to the final product is fluid, then it's a no-brainer
and I would do so from org immediately. But because I just enjoy writing in
org-mode so much more, I would probably also do it like you from now on.
* I can use auctex in latex export blocks, but I don't think latex language
servers like digestif (https://github.com/astoff/digestif) work well with them.
Cheers,
Michael
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