>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:45:57 +0200
>From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_...@web.de>
>To: David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com>
>Cc: William Denton <will...@williamdenton.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: LaTeX to Org ? (also Auctex/Lyx)
>Message-ID: <87ldop522y....@web.de>
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>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.
>
>Best wishes,
>Arne
>--
>Unpolitisch sein
>heißt politisch sein,
>ohne es zu merken.
>draketo.de
Hi,
my experience (and possibly .2 cents)
1. LaTeX2Org
I needed to go that path for a couple of manuals when I started lecturing
and it was generally feasible with AWK/Python. I got my .org file, fixed
it and could continue on the Org path.
2. #+LATEX:
Mainly for TiKZ figures (and animations): I keep them in separate files I
#+latex: \include{...}
3. #+LATEX_HEADER:
I've collected all my variations on RequirePackage{fancyvrb} for my listings
for documents and slides in one file, which I have in my Templates directory
to copy to the different documentation projects.
As a plus, I also have a dir-locals.el to use with the feature and fix the
appearance of my slides/lecture notes.
With the time, collecting and reusing has made the round-trip time +/-
equivalent to exporting to latex, fixing there and coming back.
That path, however, has been extemely usefull when implementing stuff
on the feature branch.
best, /pa
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