On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> wrote: > > On 2015-04-17, at 20:13, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Everything you'll do in Org will simply involve passing the right >> parameters to LaTeX via Org. In other words, you should start by > > Personally, I prefer configuring on the LaTeX side, but this is because > I find it much easier.
Could you clarify "on the LaTeX side" (as in, post-Org, or LaTeX altogether)? Or what you find easier? I think I'm probably on the same page, but just wanted to hear your take. For me it comes down more to the command/"micro-formatting" side. As in, for my resume, I went raw LaTeX as it would have been ridiculous to try and do what I wanted from Org (aka, I'd have just had #+begin/end_latex everywhere and thus Org would literally just be a middle man). But if I'm using Org at all, I prefer to figure out how to do the LaTeX stuff from Org; otherwise when I inevitably miss something (typo, syntax, format tweak) I have to re-export, then re-apply all my custom LaTeX tweaks to the resultant .tex file. For most reports and such, I don't adjust things that finely, and so ~5-10 #+latex_header lines seems completely worth it to have access to markup vs. writing all that raw LaTeX. Plus it just looks nicer :) > >> finding out how to do what you want to do in LaTeX; for example google >> "how to change line spacing latex" and peruse the top result: >> - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Paragraph_Formatting > > Be cautious, though: the LaTeX wikibook has some parts which are very > outdated (at least this was the situation when I looked at it some time > ago). I'd rather recommend searching CTAN and searching/asking at > TeX.StackExchange. > Good to know! I wasn't aware of that and tend to just go for the first google hit, which can sometimes be wikibook, but absolutely is often a tex.SE Q/A. >> Definitely look at paralist and enumitem for tweaking spacing as a >> starting point. > > Also, check out the titlesec package (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titlesec) > and/or memoir and/or koma-script. > >> Hope that helps. >> John > > Best, Thanks for the input! John > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski > Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science > Adam Mickiewicz University >
