Re: [O] ways to insert note to self in an org-mode file for academic paper
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:25:42 -0400, Christopher W Ryan said: Thanks Myles. That's pretty cool. --Chris Following on from Karl's post, this thread has some useful help on exporting inline tasks through latex: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00157.html Please copy any reply to the list so that people know you have received a reply. Please don't top post. Sorry for my word wrapping (below), will fix soon. Myles Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . . [God, in Joan of Arcadia, episode entitled, The Uncertainty Principle.] Myles English wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:55:23 -0400, Christopher W Ryan said: I'm very early in trying a transition from LaTeX to org-mode for academic writing, trying to learn the Org way of doing things. Running Org-mode 7.7 in Emacs 23.4.1 on Win XP. Suppose I'm writing a draft of a research proposal and come to some part that I may want to consider changing, after I think about it some more, check with others, or reassess my resources. In LaTex, I'd write something like this: % need to look into this further, check with so-and-so and keep writing on the next line. How does one do this well in Org-mode? With a # comment character? Or does this become a TODO item? Chris, I use inline tasks. e.g. *** TODO look into this further, check with so-and-so *** END And to see all of the todos in the file I use this quite a lot, just press F9 to see a list: ;; show all todos in the current buffer with one key press (global-set-key (kbd f9) (lambda () (interactive) (org-agenda nil t 'file))) Of course, I wouldn't want that little note to self to appear in any final document. But I might want it to remain in the source file, to document my line of reasoning. To not export todos, have this at the top of you file and press C-c on it before exporting: #+OPTIONS: todo:nil Thanks. --Chris -- Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . . [God, in Joan of Arcadia, episode entitled, The Uncertainty Principle.] Myles
[O] ways to insert note to self in an org-mode file for academic paper
I'm very early in trying a transition from LaTeX to org-mode for academic writing, trying to learn the Org way of doing things. Running Org-mode 7.7 in Emacs 23.4.1 on Win XP. Suppose I'm writing a draft of a research proposal and come to some part that I may want to consider changing, after I think about it some more, check with others, or reassess my resources. In LaTex, I'd write something like this: % need to look into this further, check with so-and-so and keep writing on the next line. How does one do this well in Org-mode? With a # comment character? Or does this become a TODO item? Of course, I wouldn't want that little note to self to appear in any final document. But I might want it to remain in the source file, to document my line of reasoning. Thanks. --Chris -- Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . . [God, in Joan of Arcadia, episode entitled, The Uncertainty Principle.]
Re: [O] ways to insert note to self in an org-mode file for academic paper
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:55:23 -0400, Christopher W Ryan said: I'm very early in trying a transition from LaTeX to org-mode for academic writing, trying to learn the Org way of doing things. Running Org-mode 7.7 in Emacs 23.4.1 on Win XP. Suppose I'm writing a draft of a research proposal and come to some part that I may want to consider changing, after I think about it some more, check with others, or reassess my resources. In LaTex, I'd write something like this: % need to look into this further, check with so-and-so and keep writing on the next line. How does one do this well in Org-mode? With a # comment character? Or does this become a TODO item? Chris, I use inline tasks. e.g. *** TODO look into this further, check with so-and-so *** END And to see all of the todos in the file I use this quite a lot, just press F9 to see a list: ;; show all todos in the current buffer with one key press (global-set-key (kbd f9) (lambda () (interactive) (org-agenda nil t 'file))) Of course, I wouldn't want that little note to self to appear in any final document. But I might want it to remain in the source file, to document my line of reasoning. To not export todos, have this at the top of you file and press C-c on it before exporting: #+OPTIONS: todo:nil Thanks. --Chris -- Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904 cryanatbinghamtondotedu Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly reckon. The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the most in danger of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the last of their light. From there, anything can happen . . . [God, in Joan of Arcadia, episode entitled, The Uncertainty Principle.] Myles
