From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: Org as a publishing framework, where to start? Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:56:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20111202205645.GU16723@x201> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWaCH-0001MF-LC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:59:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWaCG-00079s-3m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:59:05 -0500 Received: from jack.asmallorange.com ([74.52.119.82]:47415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWaCF-00078x-UC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:59:04 -0500 Received: from 206.180.155.43.adsl.hal-pc.org ([206.180.155.43] helo=localhost) by jack.asmallorange.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWaCA-003Wz9-2S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:58:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:09:22PM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd love to use orgmode as my publishing framework for ebooks (mainly PDF). > I'd like some flexibility on defining the output. The thought of having to > use OpenOffice / Office or even Adobe Indesign to write text is daunting to > me. It might work for small reports, but for longer works, I'd rather write > it in plain text, and org just makes things easier. > > I don't know where to start though. I don't have much time, and I'd like to > design a nice beautiful layout for the book. Where should I start looking? > What combos work best ? (org + LaTeX, etc) Is there any place I could get > some ready beautiful LaTeX layouts to study from that could be used from > org? > > Sorry about the ignorance, I might even be using the wrong terms here, the > issue is that there's way too much information spread around, and I don't > know where to start. > > Thanks, > > Marcelo. My advice? Start writing in Org, and don't worry too much. Org's latex output to PDF already looks good, and should you decide later to update to a different page layout or template those settings are normally global and set once for the whole document. Its a case of focus on content, and make it pretty(ier) later. ;] Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3