Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
Dnia 2013-04-30, o godz. 01:57:51 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com napisał(a): Ok, based on this and Marcin's comments, I'll do it the LaTeX way (which was my first choice anyway). Now I'll feel responsible for your LaTeX problems;). Seriously, though: should you run into LaTeX problems, feel free to email me. I'm a long-time (ca half of my life) TeX and LaTeX addict. Naturally, I'm using org to keep a TODO list of the formatting details I need to match... Thanks. hjh Happy TeXing -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: [...] Ok, based on this and Marcin's comments, I'll do it the LaTeX way (which was my first choice anyway). I think this is a good choice. It's what I try to do whenever possible. And for cases where the submission is meant to be camera ready, the latex produced papers always stand out because they just simply look better! -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org release_8.0-alpha-307-g3a0e55.dirty
[O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
Actually, let me take a few steps back from my specific question about the title command. There are some other workflow questions that might make that question redundant. This journal (for some reason unknown to me) has designed the publication format in MS Word, and there are some specific requirements. So I have a couple of choices: - Export to LaTeX, and try to reproduce their layout (likely with a new document class based on article). That's a chunk of work, but they also confirmed that I could send PDF as long as it follows the style guidelines. - Export to ODT. This is probably simpler for setup -- I'd probably just need to change some of the names of paragraph or character styles in their template so that org can find them for section headings, abstract etc. But... there is more risk of the formatting breaking. If I send .odt, MS Word might choke on it, or similar if I resave my .odt as .docx. (The word online is that LibreOffice does not do well saving docx.) Or, export to ODT and let LibreOffice turn that into a PDF. I hesitate to do this, when LaTeX is a far superior typesetter. (But, tweaking all the formatting details in LaTeX is quite likely to give me some more gray hairs...) Advice? Thanks -- hjh
Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: Actually, let me take a few steps back from my specific question about the title command. There are some other workflow questions that might make that question redundant. This journal (for some reason unknown to me) has designed the publication format in MS Word, and there are some specific requirements. So I have a couple of choices: - Export to LaTeX, and try to reproduce their layout (likely with a new document class based on article). That's a chunk of work, but they also confirmed that I could send PDF as long as it follows the style guidelines. - Export to ODT. This is probably simpler for setup -- I'd probably just need to change some of the names of paragraph or character styles in their template so that org can find them for section headings, abstract etc. But... there is more risk of the formatting breaking. If I send .odt, MS Word might choke on it, or similar if I resave my .odt as .docx. (The word online is that LibreOffice does not do well saving docx.) Or, export to ODT and let LibreOffice turn that into a PDF. I hesitate to do this, when LaTeX is a far superior typesetter. (But, tweaking all the formatting details in LaTeX is quite likely to give me some more gray hairs...) Advice? Thanks -- hjh I used both aproaches : - Usually I customize the org options (latex templates) to meet the requirements of the final document. It is convenient for me to stay in emacs. For the gray hairs, you do it once and thus you have minor modifications. - But sometimes when I work with other colleagues I need to have something more common, odt seems fine but as you mentioned you may have to add a final manual toutch to be sure your document can be modified by the others. Regards,
Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
Dnia 2013-04-29, o godz. 07:22:23 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com napisał(a): Or, export to ODT and let LibreOffice turn that into a PDF. I hesitate to do this, when LaTeX is a far superior typesetter. (But, tweaking all the formatting details in LaTeX is quite likely to give me some more gray hairs...) What about using koma-script or memoir class? And you can always ask about some specific formatting problems on TeX.SE (they are very willing to help there provided that the asker actually made some effort himself first, like some *basic* rtfm or preparing a MWE). Advice? Thanks -- hjh hth -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
Re: [O] Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template
mohamed mohamed.hibti at gmail.com writes: I used both aproaches : - Usually I customize the org options (latex templates) to meet the requirements of the final document. It is convenient for me to stay in emacs. For the gray hairs, you do it once and thus you have minor modifications. - But sometimes when I work with other colleagues I need to have something more common, odt seems fine but as you mentioned you may have to add a final manual toutch to be sure your document can be modified by the others. Ok, based on this and Marcin's comments, I'll do it the LaTeX way (which was my first choice anyway). Naturally, I'm using org to keep a TODO list of the formatting details I need to match... Thanks. hjh
