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

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 14:57, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> I have been using Org for writing research papers for a while,
> gradually improving my set up to be able to exactly produce the output
> I want. In this process, I have benefited greatly not only from the
> resources available on the Org-mode website but also from various
> people who generously provided solutions to my numerous queries on
> this mailing list. I felt that it may be of some use if I put together
> all the pieces and document what I was doing.
>
> I have put the draft for comments at: https://github.com/vikasrawal/orgpaper/blob/master/orgpapers.org

Thanks for this.  I circulated it to my research group yesterday and I
hope it convinces some to try.

From my perspective, I must say:  thank you, thank you, thank you!

You mentioning pandoc as one of the tools to use made me finally sit
down and look at it.  I am very glad I did.  Just today, I started
working on a paper that has to be in Word format in the end.  This is
always annoying but especially when the paper has mathematics in
it.  And this one does.  I learned that pandoc exports latex to odt and
docx including the conversion of equations.  I had not been aware of
this.  This is a real time saver so thank you again!

For me, org export to latex followed by pandoc to docx will be my
preferred route when I need to create Word documents (which luckily is
not that often), rather than using org's export to odt.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org release_8.2.6-958-g7c8559-git