On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 08:55, Christopher W. Ryan <cr...@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> In other words, if a complete novice, knowing nothing about LaTeX and > not having it on their machine ever, installed emacs and created an org > mode file, could they export via latex to PDF? Could they export to html? To HTML, yes. They could export to a LaTeX file, but they wouldn't be able to do anything with it: to make the PDF they'd need the LaTeX environment, which Org relies on. (Exporting to OpenDocument, .odt, works out of the box, so if they have LibreOffice or Word they could use that to convert to PDF, which might be more approachable, if that helps.) Cheers, Bill -- William Denton https://www.miskatonic.org/ Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator. Toronto, Canada
