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From: Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org Tutorials need more structure
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:50:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52474101.7010904@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1wqm03erb.fsf@poto.myhome.westell.com>

On 9/28/2013 3:52 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Aloha Carsten,
>
snip
> First, I think that most statements about "what Org-mode is" are
> outdated. Many of them are quite good, but they represent the previous
> state of an evolving system and so fail to capture the full scope. To my
> mind, Org-mode is a "research programming interface" written by and for
> scientists who take very seriously certain core values of the scientific
> enterprise--reproducibility, open access, and open source (a partial
> list).
Strongly disagree with the sentiment. My undergraduate degree may gave 
been Physics, but I work as a freelance paralegal. I use Org Mode for 
project (file) planning, scheduling, drafting documents, etc. Also, I 
believe that there are some very active participants on this list who 
are not scientists and have made great contributions.
> Its original focus on project planning has expanded with two
> amazing and fundamental contributions, Eric and Dan's mature Babel
> implementation and Nicolas' new export framework.
I use the LaTeX export to create pdf documents, such as contracts and 
pleadings, nothing "scientific" there. Sometimes I will export to utf-8 
text file, so I can copy and paste into "those other" document formats. 
(Sorry to say, but most of the US legal community is still MS Word and 
WordPerfect oriented.) I believe that I can eventually use Org-Babel for 
reproducible "research", research being more other than scientific.
>
> These core values are manifest most clearly in the Org-mode community
> and its organ, the mailing list. There isn't a tutorial on how to use
> the mailing list! I'm confident that others in the Org-mode community
> admire Nick Dokos' contributions to the list as much as I do. It would
> be great to have his perspective and approach in a short, welcoming
> tutorial.
No argument about the mailing list - see my earlier post. Also, Nick has 
helped me a few times; and I might add, I make sure that I read your 
posts - this is not to curry favor!
> hth,
> Tom
>

Charlie Millar

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-28 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-28  6:11 Org Tutorials need more structure Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28  7:22 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28  8:37   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:30   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 11:59     ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 12:36       ` Eric Schulte
2013-09-28 13:10         ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 16:02       ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 17:19         ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-10-01  7:59       ` Eric S Fraga
2013-10-01 20:34     ` David Rogers
2013-10-01 21:00       ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28  8:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:09   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 14:26 ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 16:35   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 17:14 ` Ian Barton
2013-09-28 17:43   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 17:48     ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 19:06 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-09-28 19:52 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-28 20:50   ` Charles Millar [this message]
2013-09-28 21:31     ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 21:52       ` John Hendy
2013-09-28 23:14         ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 23:29         ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29  0:29           ` John Hendy
2013-09-29  7:28             ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-30  8:04               ` Alan Schmitt
2013-09-30 17:01                 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-30 18:36                   ` Peter Neilson
2013-09-30 21:07                     ` Eduardo Ochs
2013-10-01  8:52                       ` Michael Brand
2013-10-01  5:34                   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-01  8:55                     ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-01 12:40                       ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-30 17:56               ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29  8:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-29 15:31   ` Matt Price
2013-09-30  7:25     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-01 14:08 ` William Denton
2013-10-02  1:10 ` M
2013-10-02 18:06   ` Alan E. Davis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-29 16:43 Rustom Mody

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