Re: Re: [David O'Toole] Fwd: Re: org-publish future ?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 15:54, Michael Olson wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> My interest in exporting Org-mode to more formats is quite limited.
>> I am not using Org-mode to write books.  And if I want to produce a
>> book, moving away from the fantastic toolset for LaTeX available
>> under Emacs to something that limits my possibilities to a subset of
>> LaTeX is a loss, not a gain.
>
> That may be true for those who have LaTeX experience.  For those who
> don't, *any* decent attempt at making it easier to generate LaTeX
> documents from Org files would be a gain.

Yes, this is certainly true.  ascii-to-xxx converters can certainly 
help you to write your first LaTeX document.  However, they don't 
encourage to grow into that language at all, so to some extend they are 
a dead end.

- Carsten