Re: Export formats: Is there an in-house Emacs final format?

[Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>]

Hi Lawrence,

emacs (in a window, not in the terminal) allows display of images. 
C-c C-x C-v will display your LaTeX equations as graphics in the 
buffer. No need for other software.

You could also look at UTF-8 mode (C-c C-x \) to display \alpha and 
x_y as their respective greek and subscript sympbols, for example.

And finally you could look into various pretty-symbol modes so your 
text and even python code looks more analog. With pretty symbols 
np.sum(sqrt(x)) looks like the greek sum and the sqrt symbols. A 
cheap ASCII view would be: Ev(x)

   -k.


On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:

> I'm a beginner, and I'm trying to imagine how I'd use org mode to 
> create a sort of running conversation with myself. That is, I'd 
> like to do a form of journaling where I could make notes to 
> myself, which would include the usual text as outlne-hierarchy, 
> hyperlinks too, but also babel code chunks, as well as any sort of 
> mathematical formulae I might want to include. It's this last 
> requirement that seems to be the hardest. As far as I can tell, 
> the readability of my raw org file would go out the window when I 
> started trying to put in math formulae. As I understand, you 
> basically do raw Tex markup for math stuff -- and you can only see 
> the results when you export to something external to Emacs like 
> html for a browser or PDF for a PDF viewer. Is this correct?
>
> And for my title question, is there a native "in-house" i.e., the 
> final product is viewable in Emacs, export that would be rich 
> enough (text, images, and math symbols)? Besides the embedding of 
> a PDF viewer in a buffer trick, Emacs seems to have only Info. 
> Does Info allow images and fairly normal-looking math symbols? Or 
> is "final product" always an off-site, extra-Emacs business?
>
> Lawrence Bottorff
> North Shore MN
>