Re: Latex export or Latex tangle? Best practice?

[Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>]

I would use LaTeX code blocks when I need to write something in LaTeX
that isn't easy to write in org mode, not to distinguish what is a
note and what is part of the draft. For that I recommend comments,
e.g.,


### Start example ###

* Section 1
** COMMENT Some rough draft notes to myself
 yadda yadda more badda
** Some stuff that should be exported
This is the actual important stuff that should be exported
*** More stuff that should be exported
yadda yada
*** COMMENT More notes and stuff don't export
*** Export this one too
bla bla

### End example ###

When you export the commented sections will be excluded.

Best,
Ista
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a previous post I was getting at the issue of whether I should just do
> regular export or use latex "code blocks" for what I wanted in a final
> document. What I want is the ability to create a big, rambling, annotated
> org file -- with "keeper" stuff inside the latex babel blocks -- then tangle
> the .org file, thereby leaving all the annotations and lead-up notes behind.
> I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting "notes" to evolve into a "finished
> product" and orgmode would seem to offer a good path. So, I don't want to
> have to hand-edit out my so-called annotations. Is keeping the good stuff in
> latex babel blocks a best practice?
>
> LB