Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-14 Thread Mike McLean
On 5/11/11 12:33 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: (I second Mike's suggestions re. defining LaTeX classes but it does require some LaTeX knowledge: the best thing to do is find a class that is oh-so-close and then change it as little as possible to get what you want). Speaking of that, I guess I should

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-11 Thread Mike McLean
On 5/10/11 1:52 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: Hi list, So today I have been reseaching about higher-levels toolkits that could help me get into TeX (and or LaTeX) and at the same time allowing me to keep the text in a more human-readable format (easier to mantain and to convert to other

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-11 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Thanks for the tip Mike. I had no idea about this approach, I'm still too naive in TeX/LaTeX. I'll definitely have to get my head around both -- but it's reassuring to know that I can write the content in orgmode and tweak the LaTeX output it later as I want. By the way, any book recommendations

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-11 Thread Nick Dokos
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tip Mike. I had no idea about this approach, I'm still too naive in TeX/LaTeX. I'll definitely have to get my head around both -- but it's reassuring to know that I can write the content in orgmode and tweak the LaTeX output it

[O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Hi list, So today I have been reseaching about higher-levels toolkits that could help me get into TeX (and or LaTeX) and at the same time allowing me to keep the text in a more human-readable format (easier to mantain and to convert to other formats if needed). I know that if I want beautiful

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: Hi list, So today I have been reseaching about higher-levels toolkits that could help me get into TeX (and or LaTeX) and at the same time allowing me to keep the text in a more human-readable format (easier to mantain and to convert to

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Cool! Thanks. Now that you mention it, I was wondering if something like condition export is possible. For very specific localized LaTeX fetures, it would be useful. Take this example: #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} #+LaTeX:\yinipar{\color{red}H}ello World This created a first-letter

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Marcelo, The approach I would take here, which might not be what you want, would be to use inline markup: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10_3 You would define the output for the various exporters in the link definition, with something fancy for LaTeX and

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Thomas, I have a more specific question. I have already managed to embed an image to act as the cover of the book. However, the image is being shown in the third page. I want the sequence to be like this: 1) Cover image 2) The sub-cover: Title My Name Date 3) TOC 4) Intro, chapters...

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Marcelo, I don't /believe/ org will keep you from doing that. My guess is that you are going to end up redefining the LaTeX \maketitle command, see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-11_2 I've done this once or twice--it's an adventure for someone with my

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Thanks Thomas. I got enough proof org can really be used to write a book after finding out that Avdi Grimm wrote and published his exceptional ruby book (http://exceptionalruby.com/) using org ;) It's nice to be part of such a great community. Orgmode ROCKS! Thank you for the help, now I'll get

Re: [O] Org as a publishing toolkit

2011-05-10 Thread prad
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: It's nice to be part of such a great community. Orgmode ROCKS! ya i think org may become quite possibly the most useful item i use ... once i learn how to do more with it. -- in friendship, prad