Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-21 Thread Rasmus Pank Roulund
Dear Tom, I suppose this depends on what is meant by reproducible. My goal is to produce a compendium as defined by Gentleman and Lang (see Gentleman R, Lang DT (2004). Statistical Analyses and Reproducible Research. Technical report, Bioconductor Project. URL

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-18 Thread Rasmus
Thomas, Tom, do tell us more about what these habits are. The new exporter is really your friend. Where before I might choose to generate a LaTeX block, now I look to generate Org output and then count on the exporter to do the right thing on the way to pdf. The exporter's attribute

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-18 Thread Aaron Ecay
Hi Rasmus, 2013ko apirilak 18an, Rasmus-ek idatzi zuen: I too rely heavily on filters and customizations. I haven't been able to fully appreciate the asynchronous exporter yet. For instance I set some defaults for tables, pictures, add lots of entities etc. in my init file, and I went as

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-18 Thread Rasmus
Aaron Ecay aarone...@gmail.com writes: If your external org configuration file were kept under version control (I’ll discuss git but the principle is general), then reproducibility would be possible. There are ways of embedding git hashes in LaTeX documents (for one example:

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-18 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Rasmus, Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.emacs.orgmode as well. Thomas, Tom, do tell us more about what these habits are. The new exporter is really your friend. Where before I might choose to

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Vikas, On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 03:40:22AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: At one point I realised the problem and made the decision to split things into two kinds of files: static content (document structuring, text, plots, etc), and dynamic content (babel, TikZ blocks that generate

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-17 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: Hi Vikas, On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 03:40:22AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: At one point I realised the problem and made the decision to split things into two kinds of files: static content (document structuring, text, plots, etc), and dynamic

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Rainer, On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:55:50AM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote: I did not follow the initial thread, but the new header caught my attentian, as I am doing something similar with papers. Nothing against org for writing papers, but I prefer LyX [1]. But for doing the analysis, org

Re: [O] Best practices for literate programming [was: Latex export of tables]

2013-04-16 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Vikas, Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: I've been down it too many times myself. The habits I've developed over time have helped, but I think they are less systematic than what you've devised. Tom, do tell us more about what these habits are. The new exporter is