From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: want a file format easily edited and read by emacs that allows (multiple) pictures to be included Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:23:43 +0000 Organization: CPSE, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL) Message-ID: <87o9n9d140.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87tvx99t3y.fsf@gmail.com> <87indo7s7o.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d13u7qvo.fsf@mbork.pl> <86shcqg2a7.fsf@zoho.com> <878teh7o8a.fsf@mbork.pl> <86bmjdd8ey.fsf@zoho.com> <86vahjgul3.fsf@zoho.com> <86vahig499.fsf@zoho.com> <871sk6oczg.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87tvx2wpxd.fsf@fastmail.fm> <868teefjjn.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512725067 541 195.159.176.226 (8 Dec 2017 09:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:24:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 08 10:24:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEtK-0008RQ-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:24:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEtR-0007YQ-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEsx-0007YI-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEst-0004sX-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48709 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEst-0004rz-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEsf-0007Dv-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:23:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 67 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Url: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Kdry2WCVHFf4IQ50WGQPf7zxlg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115303 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday, 7 Dec 2017 at 20:02, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Well, well, WELL! :) > > You are bound to see a lot before your eyes pop > out of their holes! :-) > But it works exactly as you say! > > The speed of producing documents is much > higher, no doubt. Yes. I do all of my technical (and other) writing in org now despite having used LaTeX directly since the mid-80s. (and troff before that ;-)) Plus it has the benefit of all the task management and table manipulation features thrown in. It does help to know LaTeX as I often do need to bring in some specific LaTeX directives into the org file but generally org allows me to worry about content and not formatting (in the same way that LaTeX does when compared with word processors). Further, for me, knowing that I can always in the end export the whole document to LaTeX means I have a fallback should the final document require significant LaTeX customisations (as some journals require). However, this seldom has been required and I have submitted quite a few articles now that were done completely in org. And, finally, should it become absolutely necessary (yech), I can export to ODT and I have a word processor version for those annoying publishers that require DOC documents. > Tho it might be detrimental to the user (or > some of them at least) in the long run as it > focuses on superficial qualities and lend > itself to "snippet programming" where the goal > is the document itself rather than the other > way around which is documenting technology... Well, in my case, the goal is often the document. However, it may also be the code where each block of code (e.g. function or method) becomes a separate src block with detailed commentary in normal text (with structure therefore). You can then "tangle" the code blocks into the full source files. Cf. literate programming. Example: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/fresa.html =2D-=20 Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, org 9.1.4 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQSPXCedOQfhSlwpVw3IkZPY//z2fQUCWipaHwAKCRDIkZPY//z2 fXHWAKCNjD7+s46v8xyGQFXNSTQzepsHlgCcCqwxVALRIOgmHr1Gi/dubJjghZk= =Ui7N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--