On 5/10/11 1:52 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Hi list, > > So today I have been reseaching about higher-levels toolkits that > could help me get into TeX (and or LaTeX) and at the same time > allowing me to keep the text in a more human-readable format (easier > to mantain and to convert to other formats if needed). > > I know that if I want beautiful formatted PDFs I will need to get into > TeX / LaTeX, and I already started doing that, but as I said, keeping > the text in a higher level format has benefits that you already know > about. > > So I looked at asciidoc, the lower-level XML-based docbook, markdown, > pandoc, ConTeXt, etc. > > Then I thought, why not try orgmode?
I've done the same thing over the past few months and agree that org-mode as the front end for a LaTeX document production system is the way to go. The low-level tweak that I've added is a definition of a set of LaTeX custom classes that map to my "roles" in life. For example, I am the president of a non-profit organization and I have a LaTeX class for that organization. This class defines chapter heads, title pages, etc. to have a look-and-feel of the organization. I have a day job, the LaTeX class for that reflects the corporate communication guidelines. (And so on). I had tried the route of defining various low-level LaTeX tweaks in header statement in org export option files, and this was wayyyyy to complex, fragile, and very difficult to maintain. The time I spent the last few weeks creating 3 (of 4) necessary LaTeX =.cls= files has so far been time well spent. I would strongly recommend thinking about putting any desired low-level LaTeX tweaks into a class (or set of classes) that are *your's*.
