My usecase is basically the slides for my lectures. I get rid of most of the markup, which in Beamer is sometimes overwhelming. I can also modify examples on the fly to answer questions and explore alternatives in class. And I can always resort to TiKZ for high-quality graphics and animations.
Best,/PA Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 16 jul 2025, a las 18:03, Leo Butler <leo.but...@umanitoba.ca> escribió: > > On Wed, Jul 16 2025, Matteo Valsasina <mat...@valsasina.com> wrote: > >> Wow, >> this seems fantastic both for math and for doc exportting. > > Yes, I think Org really is fantastic for those purposes (and writing > code in a (semi-)literate fashion). > >> Are those files public? > > No, they contain the personal information of students (names, ids, > grades, etc.) and notes that I compose to myself, my TAs, students and > others. I wouldn't trust my ability to excise *all* that information, > because the notes may be embedded inside lecture notes, quizzes or > whatever made sense at the time. I guess I should have added a tag, > :private: or something like that, but I did not think of this issue > until just now. > > Maybe I will re-vist your question when the next semester starts in the > fall. > > Best regards, > Leo > >> >> Cheers >> Matteo >> >>> On mar, lug 15, 2025 at 03:50 Leo Butler <leo.but...@umanitoba.ca> wrote: >>>> 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 > > -- > --- > Best regards, > Dr Butler
