From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Org as a publishing toolkit
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:52:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimjmGsK79EdeOG=uLSjK0uxw_qwnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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 formatted PDFs I will need to get into
TeX / LaTeX, and I already started doing that, but as I said, keeping
the text in a higher level format has benefits that you already know
about.
So I looked at asciidoc, the lower-level XML-based docbook, markdown,
pandoc, ConTeXt, etc.
Then I thought, why not try orgmode?
So, after reading this article:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html, I've then
realized how powerful the org-export feature is.
I can basically do this:
* Keep the text in a (very) human readable format that I'm used to
and that is much better to maintain than any other format I know
(markdown / asciidoc) and integrated with my own orgmode personal
information manager!
* Add / customize the LaTeX output in *ANY* way I want to. Thanks to
org AND babel! From what I can see, there are no limitations on how
complex the LaTeX customizations can be, it can essentially match up
any other "pure" latex documents out there.
* As noted above, fully support LaTeX while still allowing me to export to:
* plaintext
* HTML
* DocBook (and hence an array of other formats)
I mean, how cool is that? I'm only starting in TeX/LaTeX so I might be
overlooking some limitations, but from what I can see, orgmode is the
most pragmatic and powerful publishing framework I have ever come to
know.
And what excites me even more is that I can keep my book in my
preferred format and still output a beautifully-formatted PDF book
*and* still support other formats (such as mobi or epub through
docbook). Amazing!
By the way, if I want to use raw TeX or maybe ConTeXt, is it possible?
Not that I need, only curious :)
This needs more hype! I don't think people realize how powerful this is ;)
Cheers!
Marcelo.
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-10 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-10 17:52 Marcelo de Moraes Serpa [this message]
2011-05-10 18:31 ` Org as a publishing toolkit Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-10 18:48 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-05-10 19:19 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-10 20:53 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-05-10 21:35 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-10 21:39 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-05-10 22:26 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-11 0:41 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-05-11 1:40 ` prad
2011-05-11 4:52 ` Avdi Grimm
2011-05-11 8:09 ` Rasmus
2011-05-12 6:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-05-11 15:15 ` Mike McLean
2011-05-11 16:10 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-05-11 16:33 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-14 12:32 ` Mike McLean
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