Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-05 Thread Thierry Banel
Le 05/09/2015 02:29, John Kitchin a écrit : > Thanks. org-ref has been pretty stable lately, and given my fall > schedule it is likely to stay that way ;) > > It might be ready for MELPA. I don't have a lot of experience packaging > for MELPA. Is there a set of instructions on how to do that

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-04 Thread John Kitchin
Thanks. org-ref has been pretty stable lately, and given my fall schedule it is likely to stay that way ;) It might be ready for MELPA. I don't have a lot of experience packaging for MELPA. Is there a set of instructions on how to do that somewhere? Erik Hetzner writes: > Thanks, John. > > I

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-04 Thread Rasmus
Christian Wittern writes: > $> pip --freeze > requirements and > $> pip install -r > might provide both a flexible and extensible way to maintain meta packages. > Or is there already a better way in the Emacs universe? Why make it so hard? Just use the facilities built

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-04 Thread Christian Wittern
On 2015-09-02 19:40, John Kitchin wrote: > Cool! Thanks for the shout out to org-ref! > > my jmax starter package (http://github.com/jkitchin/jmax) is basically > designed for the last point you described. I use it with students (41 > this semester!) as a standalone "package". It isn't as polished

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Erik Hetzner
Hi Rasmus, On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:00:50 -0700, Rasmus wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks, I really enjoyed them. One technical question. Why do the flow > of the slides sometimes change from L→R to T→B? It's quite confusing and > makes it hard to go back and forth between slides (IMO

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Erik Hetzner
Thanks, John. I was really blown away by org-ref. It’s a great package. I love, for instance, the citation displayed in the minibuffer when the cursor is on a cite. If you need help with the MELPA packaging process, let me know. best, Erik On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:40:42-0700, John Kitchin

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread John Kitchin
Cool! Thanks for the shout out to org-ref! my jmax starter package (http://github.com/jkitchin/jmax) is basically designed for the last point you described. I use it with students (41 this semester!) as a standalone "package". It isn't as polished as prelude or others, but it allows them to do

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Rasmus
Hi, Erik Hetzner writes: > http://www.e6h.org/talks/emacsconf-2015/index.html Thanks, I really enjoyed them. One technical question. Why do the flow of the slides sometimes change from L→R to T→B? It's quite confusing and makes it hard to go back and forth between slides

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi the slides are really nice! are they done in org and beamer? best z On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Rasmus wrote: > Hi, > > Erik Hetzner writes: > > > http://www.e6h.org/talks/emacsconf-2015/index.html > > Thanks, I really enjoyed them. One technical

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Rasmus
Hi, Xebar Saram writes: > the slides are really nice! are they done in org and beamer? Not my slides, but: Reveal.js http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ It's a very capable program¹ as long as you don't require too complicated math. There's an ox exporter, with I

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-09-02, at 14:51, Rasmus wrote: > Hi, > > Xebar Saram writes: > >> the slides are really nice! are they done in org and beamer? > > Not my slides, but: Reveal.js > > http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ > > It's a very capable program¹ as long as you

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-02 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Rasmus writes: One technical question. Why do the flow of the slides sometimes change from L→R to T→B? It's quite confusing and makes it hard to go back and forth between slides (IMO of course). None of your slides seem optional. That is reveal.js standard, left to right are "sections" and

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

2015-09-01 Thread Erik Hetzner
Hi all, Thanks for all your responses! They were a great help when putting together my talk. I’ve posted my slides from EmacsConf 2015 here: http://www.e6h.org/talks/emacsconf-2015/index.html I think the planners are planning to post videos as soon as they can get them edited to

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-27 Thread John Kitchin
this is a customizable option in org-ref. Helm is not required. You can also use the reftex mechanism for inserting references, or define your own method using icicles. https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.el#L131 Marcin Borkowski writes: On 2015-08-25, at 15:51, John

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 16:18, John Kitchin wrote: That looks very cool. Do you use it? yes but only when I have a large enough monitor, e.g. on my 24 portrait monitor I use for writing. it can be useful every now and again, especially as I have both org documents and emails trawled for

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread John Kitchin
Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot, which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my org-contacts are highlighted in a light pink background with a context tool tip and made

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 at 06:39, John Kitchin wrote: Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot, which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my Interesting! Indeed it would be

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread John Kitchin
Eric S Fraga writes: On Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 at 06:39, John Kitchin wrote: Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot, which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread John Kitchin
Suvayu Ali writes: Hi John, On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote: Most important maybe: figure out how to merge narrative text in version control! I don't want to write a sentence per line just to use the default merge with git. I really want a word-based

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-08-25, at 15:51, John Kitchin jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: What would make it even better? Not imposing Helm on the user? (I know nothing about Helm, but I use Icicles.) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread Thomas S . Dye
Aloha Erik, Erik Hetzner e...@e6h.org writes: Hi all, I am going to be giving a talk on how Emacs can help support scholars, especially those who are using plain text and doing reproducible research, at “Emacsconf 2015” in San Francisco this Saturday (the 29th). I have done some work on

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 06:48, Thomas S.Dye wrote: [...] If you'll be talking to Emacs developers, then my advice would be to thank them for their good work. The stable platform they've developed supports the most congenial scholarly writing environment I can imagine. [...]

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 09:51, John Kitchin wrote: [...] What would make it even better? Integrated smart search, e.g. find other documents that cite a reference, find similar documents/references based on what you have written. Remembrance agent [1] does this automatically to some degree

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread Matt Price
Don't have much bandwidth where i am on vacation, but for humanists a more robust and reproducible export to odt and html is org's main weakness, I think. Zotxt is great but takes a bit if setting up, and of course zotero refa are less portable than bibtex libraries. Moving to org-ref probably

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread John Kitchin
(personal bias warning;) I think org-ref+helm-bibtex is a best in class solution to citation management for org-mode/LaTeX users. It provides functional cite links that connect to web of science, scopus, pubmed, and others. It provides utilities to download bibtex and org-bibtex entries from a

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi John, On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote: Most important maybe: figure out how to merge narrative text in version control! I don't want to write a sentence per line just to use the default merge with git. I really want a word-based track-change like diff, and

Re: [O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-25 Thread John Kitchin
That looks very cool. Do you use it? Eric S Fraga writes: On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 09:51, John Kitchin wrote: [...] What would make it even better? Integrated smart search, e.g. find other documents that cite a reference, find similar documents/references based on what you have written.

[O] emacs org mode for scholars questions

2015-08-24 Thread Erik Hetzner
Hi all, I am going to be giving a talk on how Emacs can help support scholars, especially those who are using plain text and doing reproducible research, at “Emacsconf 2015” in San Francisco this Saturday (the 29th). I have done some work on managing references using Emacs pandoc, but what I’d