Re: Emacs-orgmode Digest, Vol 187, Issue 19

[Ypo <ypuntot@gmail.com>]

Thanks Max Nikulin

Then I think I will behave like grown people and use LaTeX syntax, previewing it on HTML exports, cause it gives no errors compared to the problematic PDF exports.

Thanks again, best regards

Sep 19, 2021 14:12:15 emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org:

> Message: 20
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:05:01 +0700
> From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Overlining troubles
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> On 19/09/2021 00:51, Ypo wrote:
> 
> 
> I use orgmode to read and study directly but I am not able to set up
> LaTeX preview. So I need something "direct", but I can't renounce to
> exporting it.
> 
> 
> For some letters accented characters exist: "ā".
> 
> Inline LaTeX preview just works for me (Linux), so I can suggest nothing
> besides to check "*Org Preview LaTeX Output*" buffer for errors.
> 
> 
> El 18/09/2021 a las 19:32, Timothy escribió:
> 
> 
> If you’re thinking of maths, why not just write inline LaTeX, e.g.
> \(\bar{x}\) ?
> 
> 
> 
> I think, you should follow this recomendations. Typography rules for
> math expressions substantially differ from ones for prose (italic font
> for variables, LaTeX cares concerning proper spaces, etc.).
> 
> When I was writing docs containing math, I had PDF (earlier DVI or PS)
> viewer window open along with LaTeX sources, so I could read formatted
> text. Anyway that time math in WYSIWYG was rather ugly (maybe besides
> texmacs), required heavy mouse work, and such editors had various
> problems with more or less complex documents that were easier for me to
> solve in LaTeX. That is why I never had expectation that source document
> should look like formatted one. Editing of sufficiently complex
> equations in LaTeX is not always convenient though