On 2014-11-27, at 11:09, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 at 19:00, Jacob Gerlach wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm starting writing my thesis, for which I hope to remain in org-mode >> rather than regular LaTeX. > > I would encourage this. Although I have been using LaTeX for almost 30 > years, I now do all of my writing in org with the odd LaTeX directive > when necessary. With all the various LaTeX helper bits in org > (e.g. preview), there is little advantage to writing directly in LaTeX > any longer.
On the contrary: Org-mode (however I like it) does not have the functions and keybindings that make writing LaTeX in AUCTeX so pleasant. C-c C-e can be simulated by speed keys to enter special blocks (to some extent, at least), but AFAIK there's no equivalent of C-u C-c C-e, nor (C-u) C-c C-f, nor C-c C-l with C-x ` (and probably some others I forgot about). BTW: are there any plans to support similar thing in Org? Maybe not in the core, but some kind of "plugin" in contrib? Like: convert region to italic/bold, or enter a special block with autocompletion (e.g., based on other special blocks in this very file), or change the surrounding special block to another one? OTOH, I don't try to convert anyone to using LaTeX; I'm only saying that there are valid reasons to use LaTeX over Org, at least in some cases. Though I would guess that they mean anything only for seasoned LaTeX/AUCTeX users: if you have invested over half of your life in learning TeX/LaTeX, and over a third of your life to learn AUCTeX, switching and having to fight your muscle memory is not an easy option;-). (And probably for some very special cases, too, where you have to manually tweak a lot of things with low-level TeX code, for instance.) > For me, the killer feature is the ability to put inline tasks in the > document so that I know what I need to work on without having to have a > separate task list or todo items within my general day to day task > list. Then a simple "C-c / t" shows me all the tasks for the current > document. And that is insanely cool, I have to say. (Though one can M-x occur in LaTeX - not the same, but close.) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University