Re: About exporting

2021-04-02 Thread Eric S Fraga
Looks interesting indeed. You're using many more LaTeX features than I ever do and I can see how your configuration would be useful in those cases. More examples will help in understanding when it will be useful. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-254-g37749c

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:28, Martin Steffen wrote: >> And there is a final thing which (for me) seem to work better in >> latex-mode compared to org. That's jumping to the ``next error'' with >> some key stroke. That's important, LaTeX's own error output it quite >>

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Timothy
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Thursday, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:50, Timothy wrote: >> I think in part this works for me because of a particular system I >> have in place (that IMHO works *wonderfully* with Org) which I plan on >> submitting patches to upstream (to Org) in the not-to-distant future. > >

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:50, Timothy wrote: > I think in part this works for me because of a particular system I > have in place (that IMHO works *wonderfully* with Org) which I plan on > submitting patches to upstream (to Org) in the not-to-distant future. Interesting. Look forward to

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Timothy
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:28, Martin Steffen wrote: >> And there is a final thing which (for me) seem to work better in >> latex-mode compared to org. That's jumping to the ``next error'' with >> some key stroke. That's important, LaTeX's own error output it quite

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:00, Tim Cross wrote: > the only small bit of help I've found is org-lint, which has helped me org-lint is very helpful indeed. > Having said that, I find the most common cause of errors in the *.tex > export is due to in-line Latex in my org file. I rarely run into

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Tim Cross
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:28, Martin Steffen wrote: >> And there is a final thing which (for me) seem to work better in >> latex-mode compared to org. That's jumping to the ``next error'' with >> some key stroke. That's important, LaTeX's own error output it quite

Re: About exporting

2021-04-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:28, Martin Steffen wrote: > And there is a final thing which (for me) seem to work better in > latex-mode compared to org. That's jumping to the ``next error'' with > some key stroke. That's important, LaTeX's own error output it quite > poor, but jumping to error

Re: About exporting

2021-03-31 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Martin Steffen writes: > [...] And last not least; if I ``compile'' the document (firing off latex, > bibtex, or index or whatever), the compilation runs in the background. > As far as I do that in org (exporting to pdf), it blocks emacs. Not > that it's a huge delay even, at least for smaller

Re: About exporting

2021-03-31 Thread Martin Steffen
> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga writes: Eric> On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 17:44, Juan Manuel Macías wrote: >> However, *I would not recommend anyone to use LaTeX for >> writing*. A light markup language is more comfortable and >> efficient for me. Eric> Totally agree! Although,

Re: About exporting

2021-03-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 17:44, Juan Manuel Macías wrote: > However, *I would not recommend anyone to use LaTeX for writing*. A > light markup language is more comfortable and efficient for me. Totally agree! Although, over the years, I have written many papers in LaTeX directly, in the past

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Tim Cross
Martin Steffen writes: > > There is one case where I do _NOT_ use org for such documents (though I > use org basically most things I do), and that is > > collaborative editing, > > working together on a document (maybe shared by git), at least with a > document of some amount of

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Martin Steffen writes: > In my experience, ith latex, it's possible to write text together for > well-intended people. Publishing houses tell you ``these are the classes > and style files (among perhaps others) that you _have_ to use, and also > do the following...'' (same possible for

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread autofrettage
Martin Steffen wrote: > I cannot imagine > that publishers would prescibe ``this is the org-settings and features > you as author must to use to publish with us''. If anyone, then the IEEE. In the late 80s, their instructions to authors included a mindboggling number of allowable DTP-program

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Martin Steffen
> "autofrettage" == autofrettage writes: autofrettage> Hi, autofrettage> Not even the most streamlined DTP-wysiwyg-program is I agree. I did not want to imply that. autofrettage> safe from this. Far from. I even doubt typewritten autofrettage> documents can be written

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread autofrettage
Hi, Just a remark about what Martin Steffen wrote: > There is one case where I do NOT use org for such documents (though I > use org basically most things I do), and that is > > collaborative editing, > > /.../ one can easily > mess it up (typically for novices, who start changing layout or >

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Martin Steffen
Hi, here's my angle (which works for myself) how I use org-exporting in connection with doing documents (I use in the meantime also org to export as input for jekyll to produce HTML, but that's a different use, the heavy lifting there is done in jekyll). I am a LaTeX user since quite some

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Joost Kremers
On Tue, Mar 30 2021, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 10:13, Detlef Steuer wrote: >> Btw. I had do deliver rtf recently. Is there any documented way to generate >> rtf from org? > > Two routes that I know of: > 1. org -> LaTeX -> rtf using latex2rtf > 2. org -> odt -> rtf by

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 09:06, Tim Cross wrote: >> The trick with Latex is to go with the flow, not against it. > > +1 > > This is the first thing I tell my students. LaTeX knows much much more > about how to make documents look good than any of us ever will. If you

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 10:13, Detlef Steuer wrote: > Btw. I had do deliver rtf recently. Is there any documented way to generate > rtf from org? Two routes that I know of: 1. org -> LaTeX -> rtf using latex2rtf 2. org -> odt -> rtf by saving as that format in LibreOffice. Pandoc may have

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 09:01, Colin Baxter wrote: > Very true. Unfortunately, you also have to "go with the flow" with the > publishers who insist on receiving a docx file. I'm lucky in that the vast majority of the journals I deal with accept (and prefer) LaTeX. > Thankfully there's

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Detlef Steuer
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:01:33 +0100 schrieb Colin Baxter : > Very true. Unfortunately, you also have to "go with the flow" with the > publishers who insist on receiving a docx file. Thankfully there's > pandoc, but it's an annoying waste of time having to convert from > LaTeX to some dreadful

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Baxter
> Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 09:06, Tim Cross wrote: >> The trick with Latex is to go with the flow, not against it. > +1 > This is the first thing I tell my students. LaTeX knows much much > more about how to make documents look good than any of

Re: About exporting

2021-03-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021 at 09:06, Tim Cross wrote: > The trick with Latex is to go with the flow, not against it. +1 This is the first thing I tell my students. LaTeX knows much much more about how to make documents look good than any of us ever will. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Greg Minshall
i tend to be situational. some things i export to html, some to pdf, some to both. it just depends on the need of whatever small project i'm working on.

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Tim Cross
Ypo writes: > Hi > > After some years of using orgmode, and exporting using its defaults, I would > like to take a quality leap and find a way of exporting for life. My options: > LaTeX, ODT, HTML. > Forget your goal. Technology and user expectations moves too fast and you will never find a

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Ypo, "Exporting for life" is a vague target, so it is difficult to give precise recommendations. It is usually the case that export to LaTeX doesn't require subsequent modification of the tex file. In most cases for my work, I am exporting to a LaTeX document style/class provided by

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Samuel Wales
is org ootb mma? for those of us who woul dlike to spend, like, zero time exporting, and then, like, less than a half hour fixing htat one thing that is irritating about hte output, with no errors? i can dream. On 3/29/21, autofrettage wrote: > Hi Ypo and the rest of you all, > >> After some

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Juan Manuel Macías
Hi, Ypo writes: > LaTeX: I can see some masters here that make professional books, and I > have some friends that publish scientific papers using LaTeX. But, it > looks like a like a rabbit hole to me, since even the masters seem to > have to modify the tex file directly (is this correct?), not

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread autofrettage
Hi Ypo and the rest of you all, > After some years of using orgmode, and exporting using its defaults, I would > like to take a quality leap and find a way of exporting for life. My options: > LaTeX, ODT, HTML. /.../ > How do you think I should spend some hundreds (or thousands) of hours to >

Re: About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread William Denton
On 29 March 2021, Ypo wrote: How do you think I should spend some hundreds (or thousands) of hours to achieve maestry exporting my documents? I think the key question is: Do you want to preserve them as web pages or page-based documents? If the web, then it's HTML; if documents, I'd use

About exporting

2021-03-29 Thread Ypo
Hi After some years of using orgmode, and exporting using its defaults, I would like to take a quality leap and find a way of exporting for life. My options: LaTeX, ODT, HTML. LaTeX: I can see some masters here that make professional books, and I have some friends that publish scientific

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-29 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-07-29, at 21:32, Xiha x...@laposte.net wrote: Hi John, Yes, highlight-regexp looks good and simple, when I apply it manually to the buffer. No need even to define a new face as the default hi-yellow is what I want. But: (how) can I call highlight-regexp from my .emacs file so

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-29 Thread Xiha
Hi John, Yes, highlight-regexp looks good and simple, when I apply it manually to the buffer. No need even to define a new face as the default hi-yellow is what I want. But: (how) can I call highlight-regexp from my .emacs file so that it automatically applies to every Org buffer? Or must

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk writes: 3) Custom highlight markers error No idea about this. It could be a bug anywhere. Could you maybe post a small example file? I have no idea what you are describing unfortunately. I retrieved what I did, from here

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 28 Jul 2015 at 09:24, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk writes: [...] You can always use macros instead? Or the `font-lock-add-keywords' mechanism? Best regards, Seb I think the OP wanted markers that would export, not just stand out in the emacs

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
You need to differentiate between two aspects: highlighting of text within a org buffer and what happens to text when exported. In the new exporter, I don't think you can implement anything that covers both use cases. I am not entirely sure what it is you want. If you want just one of these,

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Xiha
Thanks guys. Getting closer - but please don't overestimate my backgound knowledge :) On 07/28/2015 02:05 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You need to differentiate between two aspects: highlighting of text within a org buffer and what happens to text when exported. Yes. Principally, I want the

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread John Kitchin
You may find this post on highlighting text helpful: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/28/A-highlight-annotation-mode-for-Emacs-using-font-lock/ I think it also lays the foundation for thinking about how to get it to export, although you would need to do this as a preprocessing step

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Xiha
Thanks Sebastien and Eric, On Tuesday, 28 Jul 2015 at 09:24, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: [...] You can always use macros instead? Maybe, if I knew how. I haven't used macros before. I read this http://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-replacement.html and

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-28 Thread Nick Dokos
Xiha x...@laposte.net writes: Thanks Sebastien and Eric, On Tuesday, 28 Jul 2015 at 09:24, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: [...] You can always use macros instead? Maybe, if I knew how. I haven't used macros before. I read

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-27 Thread Xiha
Thanks Rasmus and Eric! 1) subtitle The git version has a #+subtitle keyword. See the git version of the manual for supported backends (most). Where the git install instructions say you should edit local.mk to point to the appropriate install location, how do I find out where this is?

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 15:55, Xiha wrote: Thanks Rasmus and Eric! 1) subtitle The git version has a #+subtitle keyword. See the git version of the manual for supported backends (most). Where the git install instructions say you should edit local.mk to point to the appropriate install

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 26 Jul 2015 at 15:04, Xiha wrote: 2) I have #+OPTIONS: H:9 num:9 because explicit level structure is important for this document. I would like to have more control over For LaTeX export, this will not work (AFAIK) as LaTeX only supports 4 or so levels of headings. how this is

[O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-26 Thread Xiha
Hello, I am writing a paper-like document in Org-mode, and experimenting with export to HTML and PDF (via LaTeX) in order to share drafts. Not sure yet what the final formatting will be. I am quite new to Emacs/Org-mode, know little about css and nothing about LaTeX. Using Emacs 24.5.1 and

Re: [O] Questions about exporting: subtitle, level formating, custom highlight markers error

2015-07-26 Thread Rasmus
Xiha x...@laposte.net writes: 1) I would like the exported document to have a subtitle under the title in a smaller and/or lighter font. The latter requirement makes splitting the title with a newline not quite a solution. I believe I saw discussion somewhere about a #+SUBTITLE keyword for

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-06 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... Also, given a variable like org-export-latex-image-default-option, is there any way to override it per file or per document class? ... Well, yes and no (mostly no - but see below): o You can of course

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Spike Spiegel
Hi Nicholas, On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Nick Dokosnicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... - I also need to include an image in the titlepage but I don't see any way to override \maketitle other than maybe renewcommand'ing it, which I tried with

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Nick Dokos
Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: #+LaTeX_HEADER: \titlegraphic{\includegraphics{foo.png}} Both answers spot on, thanks, with just a minor problem: adding \titlegraphic won't make the spacing between \title \author \data as produced by \maketitle shrink so the entire slide is pretty

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Nick Dokos
Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... I did some more work last night and came across another issues: - #BEGIN_VERBATIM won't work because to use the \begin{verbatim} environment the \being{frame} requires [fragile] I worked around this when working on my presentation by putting

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Nick Dokos
Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... Also, given a variable like org-export-latex-image-default-option, is there any way to override it per file or per document class? ... Well, yes and no (mostly no - but see below): o You can of course customize this variable, but that's a global

Nick Dokos: Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Nick Dokos
] questions about exporting to latex using beamer document class Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... - I'm in the situation that I need to pass options to an image (\includegraphics) in a frame's title (frames are beamer's idea of slide). Based on the docs it seems I should

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-05 Thread Russell Adams
Here's how I use prosper, follow the examples below. After exporting to tex, you must use the latex command (not pdflatex), followed by dvipdf. Enjoy! ~/.emacs: (setq org-export-latex-classes (cons '(prosper % BEGIN Prosper Defaults \\documentclass[pdf, contemporain]{prosper}

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-04 Thread Nick Dokos
Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... On a side note, a little feature request: would it be possible to produce an indented tex file? post editing is otherwise quite painful Try C-x h C-M-\ or equivalently M-x mark-whole-buffer M-x indent-region when

Re: [Orgmode] questions about exporting to latex using beamer documentclass

2009-07-04 Thread Nick Dokos
Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote: ... - I also need to include an image in the titlepage but I don't see any way to override \maketitle other than maybe renewcommand'ing it, which I tried with #+LaTeX_HEADER, but kept getting errors, altho that might have been me. While poking around I