David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com> writes:

> William Denton <will...@williamdenton.org> writes:
>
>> On Monday, July 14th, 2025 at 18:38, David Masterson 
>> <dsmaster...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was originally wondering if anyone uses Emacs/Org to write their
>>> initial document, export it to LaTeX, fix it up with Auctex or Lyx, then
>>> regenerate the Org file for storage and possible later updates?
>>
>> And leave Emacs!?!?  I bet most people here would work on the Org
>> file, perhaps adding chunks of raw LaTeX, until it did just what they
>> want.
>
> Well, okay, not Lyx, but Auctex is still in Emacs.  Org is good for
> producing pretty good documents as long as you don't want to dig into
> LaTeX.  Going beyond that, though, would it be easier to come up with
> LaTeX snippets yourself to add to your Org file or use Auctex to enhance
> the exported LaTeX (and learn LaTeX in the process)?

I use Export to LaTeX, then fix up the LaTeX file (in Emacs), then add
the required changes as

#+latex: ...
and
#+latex_header: ...

The roundtrip time with plain pdflatex document.tex is faster than with
full export to PDF.

Best wishes,
Arne
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