On Wed, Jul 16 2025, Matteo Valsasina <mat...@valsasina.com> wrote: > Wow, > this seems fantastic both for math and for doc exportting.
Yes, I think Org really is fantastic for those purposes (and writing code in a (semi-)literate fashion). > Are those files public? No, they contain the personal information of students (names, ids, grades, etc.) and notes that I compose to myself, my TAs, students and others. I wouldn't trust my ability to excise *all* that information, because the notes may be embedded inside lecture notes, quizzes or whatever made sense at the time. I guess I should have added a tag, :private: or something like that, but I did not think of this issue until just now. Maybe I will re-vist your question when the next semester starts in the fall. Best regards, Leo > > Cheers > Matteo > > On mar, lug 15, 2025 at 03:50 Leo Butler <leo.but...@umanitoba.ca> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 14 2025, David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> I use org to organize the math courses I teach. A single file contains a >> course syllabus (latex), each week's lecture slides (beamer), quizzes >> (latex), lab worksheets (latex), exams (latex), classlists, marksheets >> and sqlite code to compute final grades. >> >> There are also code blocks that contain header files to customize the >> various documents and languages used (e.g. to set up the syllabus >> document to conform with University expectations, etc.). >> >> I just learned about the latex-preview code this past semester, which >> makes editing latex code in org much less painful than the alternatives. >> But, even without that code, selectively marking trees as :noexport: >> makes it faster to do the edit-compile-revise cycle in Org. >> >> ---- >> >> On the other hand, for me, writing a research article now starts in Org, >> but by the time I am ready to submit the paper, I must do a one-way >> export to LaTeX. I am not aware of any journals that accept submissions >> in Org (are there any?). >> >> And, on the third hand, if I am collaborating on a paper, then I will >> start in Org, but collaboration almost certainly means sharing a LaTeX >> document. >> >>>> >>>> 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)? >> >> Using the keychord C-c ' on a latex block will pop you into a latex >> buffer. If your emacs is configured to use AucTeX, then you have the >> power of Org and AucTeX, all in one. >> >> Org has some good defaults for latex/beamer export, but it also has the >> power and flexibility to customize that export to replicate what you >> would get just by working in AucTeX on a latex file. >> >> Best regards, >> Leo -- --- Best regards, Dr Butler
