On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:02 AM, Maurizio Vitale wrote:
I'd recommend you use auctex for writing your thesis: it knows about
many LaTeX packages (and you can teach it more), so you get
autocompletion and highlighting. It does quasi-wysiwyg for fonts and
math. It can render fragments for quick checking and interface with
external viewers. And it has some folding support, albeit not as
nice as
org-mode's.
Org-mode would basically give you three things:
- sectioning/folding
- todo lists
- simple tables
Org-mode is wonderful for quickly taking notes and generate LaTeX/pdf
out of them. But for a book/thesis you cannot beat auctex.
Best regards,
Maurizio
Aloha Henri-Paul,
I think this is good advice for a thesis writer. auctex, with the
reftex plug-in, is a huge help.
The model I'm working with now for writing a book (still evolving as I
learn org-mode and org-babel and try different things) has 3 parts:
1) The main body of the book, held in several tex files, typically one
file per chapter. A master tex file contains the memoir header, the
includes, and the glossary, bibliography, and index paraphernalia. I
do almost all my writing in these files.
2) An org-mode file with a level one heading for each chapter,
underneath which is a place for notes, todo items, random thoughts,
and outline fragments. Immediately beneath the level one heading is a
link to the chapter tex file. I use the org-mode file to keep track
of what I've finished and what still needs work. This is a tremendous
help when I have to put the work down for a while and then pick it up
again. I'm back up to speed in short order.
3) Several org-babel LaTeX code blocks and noweb references to the
output from statistical analyses mostly in R and carried out in org-
babel. These are mostly descriptive sections and the benefit of
writing them this way is that they track changes in the database as I
augment observations or spot data entry errors while writing. These
are exported to tex files that are referenced in the master tex file.
4) Compiling my book is a three-step process (ignoring for the moment
the bibliography, glossary, and index). First, re-run the statistical
analyses in org-babel. Second, run org-babel-tangle on the org-mode
file to refresh the output of the org-babel LaTeX code blocks. Lastly
compile to pdf with auctex.
I'll be interested to learn how you end up writing your thesis with
LaTeX and org-mode.
HTH,
Tom
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