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

[Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>]

Thank you Axel for taking the time to test it. I look forward to more comments as you look at it. You comments are very useful.

> 
> I tried to export the .org to Latex and failed because it needed
> tabulary and threeparttable.
> 
> They are used if you use vikas-general.org but as far as i understood the document that is just recommended.
> 
> I added the line 
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{tabulary,threeparttable}
> to the document.
> 

vikas-general.org (I already dislike my name being on that file) specifies these as part of org-latex-default-package-list, so both tabulary and threeparttable should get included by default.

I removed explicit inclusion of these packages from this document and the instructions, because I wanted to reduce the work in terms of setting things up.

> Another problem I had are the URLs in the section titles.
> They cause problems when running the tex file a second time.
> 
> Runaway argument?
> {R \(` `\045\BOOKMARK [2][-]{subsection.2.4}{Pandoc}{section.2}\BOOKMARK \ETC.
> ! File ended while scanning use of \@@BOOKMARK.
> <inserted text> 
>                \par 
> 
> You may want to move the URLs from the section title to the body.
> 

I thought I had fixed this. But will check again.

> You are using straight (") quotation marks in org and the LaTeX export has straight quotation marks. Is there a way to convert them to “” or \enquote?
> 

Should use 
(setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t)

Will add that to the revised abcd-general.org


> You are using
> 
> : #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [garamond]
> 
> which results in
> 
> \documentclass[garamond]{article}
> 
> But garamond is not a valid option for article.
> 

This is where I got this from

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/article-class.html#sec-4-3-2

I think it requires mathdesign to be loaded. But I will check.

Vikas