On Wed, Jul 16 2025, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>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.
Similarly, I had to convert older course notes from latex/beamer when I
got started with Org. I wrote a couple elisp functions that did 90% of
the conversion; the last 10% usually required my judgement, and that was
fine.
>
> 2. #+LATEX:
>
> Mainly for TiKZ figures (and animations): I keep them in separate files I
>
> #+latex: \include{...}
I started using tikz after org, so I just write the tikz code in my org
file. My experience is that lualatex + tikz is very slow, though, so
using pdflatex for previewing is quite helpful.
>
> 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.
Thanks for that work, btw.
Leo
