On Mon, Jul 14 2025, David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com> wrote: > 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?
I use org to organize the math courses I teach. A single file contains a course syllabus (latex), each week's lecture slides (beamer), quizzes (latex), lab worksheets (latex), exams (latex), classlists, marksheets and sqlite code to compute final grades. There are also code blocks that contain header files to customize the various documents and languages used (e.g. to set up the syllabus document to conform with University expectations, etc.). I just learned about the latex-preview code this past semester, which makes editing latex code in org much less painful than the alternatives. But, even without that code, selectively marking trees as :noexport: makes it faster to do the edit-compile-revise cycle in Org. ---- On the other hand, for me, writing a research article now starts in Org, but by the time I am ready to submit the paper, I must do a one-way export to LaTeX. I am not aware of any journals that accept submissions in Org (are there any?). And, on the third hand, if I am collaborating on a paper, then I will start in Org, but collaboration almost certainly means sharing a LaTeX document. >> >> 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)? Using the keychord C-c ' on a latex block will pop you into a latex buffer. If your emacs is configured to use AucTeX, then you have the power of Org and AucTeX, all in one. Org has some good defaults for latex/beamer export, but it also has the power and flexibility to customize that export to replicate what you would get just by working in AucTeX on a latex file. Best regards, Leo
