Dnia 2013-09-28, o godz. 09:22:02 Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Hi Dominik, hi everyone, > > Thank you for org-mode and thanks to all who contribute to this > project. > > I am a newby to org-mode , I am an emacs user for LaTeX, mainly, and I > would be happy to use more and more emacs, so org-mode seems very > attractive. > > I imagine that writing a tutorial is a big work and I hope that I > will not offend people who have taken this time. But I must say that > the org-mode manual and the tutorials that I have tried to read are > not enough progressive for beginners and do not take care of > difference between interests of people. > > Example: I am presently mainly interested to see if it is possible to > use gnus to write a scientific letter with all conveniences of > texlive. Of course I can open a tex file with letter class and send > to my colleague a pdf file. But it would be more convenient to write > an email and using conversions to html and png images to send to him > directly this email. I guess it is possilbe to do it with gnus. But > the documentation is esoteric: I hear about links, but how it works > concretly with example understanble by a newby ... mystery. It is > therefore frustrating and quickly discouraging. > > So, in my opinion, a good tutorial is divided into precise tasks and > speaks like that: > "You need to do that? So, follow me , from step to step, I will > going to show you how I succeed to do what you want to do, and by > imitation, you will also succeed ! " A good tutorial avoids to > suppose that the reader is already an expert. > > In a word, too much tutorial in org-mode lack of pedagogical efforts. > > Sorry to be speak so frankly, but I hope it will help. > > Waiting your help with gnus - latex and conversion in html , etc. etc. > > All the best > > Jo. Well, from what I heard, Gnus is a bad example - it seems to be notoriously difficult to get into. OTOH, with Org-mode it is much better - I found even the manual *very* accessible, at least for a long-time Emacs user. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
