Re: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences

[Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>]

> 
> It seems safer/efficient to focus on making modular documentation that
> is the definitive *best*/*right* way (and *best* explained) to do
> something, and then to link to that prolifically.
> 

Your points are very valid and expressed convincingly. 

Writing this document was a result of, first and foremost, a personal urge to write it, and secondly, in view of very specific use cases (my graduate students, to whom I wanted to provide a one-stop shop, before they explore rest of the stuff).

That said, your arguments that it is not optimal to include such a document as part of documentation on orgmode.org is perhaps right. I can see that maintaining modular non-repetitive content is easier. Long-term maintenance of documentation should be an important concern for something that is under heavy development. 

Unless others feel differently, I would let the document float around the cyberspace, on my personal website and on github, for anyone to discover and use.

Thanks for your very reasonable comments. 

Vikas