"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_...@web.de> writes: > David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com> writes: > >> William Denton <will...@williamdenton.org> writes: >> >>> On Monday, July 14th, 2025 at 18:38, David Masterson >>> <dsmaster...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I was originally wondering if anyone uses Emacs/Org to write their >>>> initial document, export it to LaTeX, fix it up with Auctex or Lyx, then >>>> regenerate the Org file for storage and possible later updates? >>> >>> And leave Emacs!?!? I bet most people here would work on the Org >>> file, perhaps adding chunks of raw LaTeX, until it did just what they >>> want. >> >> Well, okay, not Lyx, but Auctex is still in Emacs. Org is good for >> producing pretty good documents as long as you don't want to dig into >> LaTeX. Going beyond that, though, would it be easier to come up with >> LaTeX snippets yourself to add to your Org file or use Auctex to enhance >> the exported LaTeX (and learn LaTeX in the process)? > > I use Export to LaTeX, then fix up the LaTeX file (in Emacs), then add > the required changes as > > #+latex: ... > and > > #+latex_header: ... > > The roundtrip time with plain pdflatex document.tex is faster than with > full export to PDF.
Interesting. Thanks. -- David Masterson
