Andreas Leha writes:
On 2014-11-26, at 20:00, Jacob Gerlach wrote:
Just my 2 cents: I'd go for LaTeX if heavy math typesetting is
involved (then amsmath!), maybe for Org otherwise, check
whether the template imposes a many-file structure (which it
probably doesn't), and keep everything in one file.
I would disagree here. I do not see, that writing equations in
LaTeX is substantially easier than in org. Or put the other way
round: org's support for equations is quite good.
There is no way that writing equations can be faster in org than
in AUCTeX, since AUCTeX is designed for that, especially with
LaTeX-math-mode, two keys write any Greek symbol for example. And
all the support for completion of commands, environments and
environment variables, changing fonts, sectioning, integration
with reftex...
By the way, AUCTeX supports many packages by default including
amsmath, so just adding the proper \usepackage{amsmath} in the
preamble makes AUCTeX fontify in math-mode align, gather,
multline, and their starred equivalents.
The one thing that org is better at is tables, but for that I use
radiotables inside of AUCTeX.
And preview-latex is really speeding me up.
I have never been a fan of preview or any WYSIWYG editing, I feel
like it slows me down, but if you use only org and are not used to
LaTeX it could be helpful, in AUCTeX it is easier to read math
because of the fonts used (for example subscripts and superscripts
are written under and over the symbols). I would also suggest
compiling with SyncTeX for forward search support, I do not know
if forward search is possible with org.
That being said there is a learning curve associated with
TeX/AUCTeX and if you are already very comfortable with org and do
not have time for learning something new, perhaps it is better to
stick with org.
If you decide to go with LaTeX, the reason to split your
dissertation in several chapters is so that the compilation can
run faster, since when you change a chapter and compile only that
chapter is compiled again. This is a substantial gain in
compilation time with big documents (books, dissertations). If you
decide to go with several org files and the publishing mechanism
or a single org file, I think that every time that you export the
whole document needs to be compiled.
Best,
--
Jorge.
