Re: [O] plain text best practice?
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: On Wed, Jun 06 2012, scraw...@gmail.com wrote: howdy guys, I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily have very many headings or sub-headings. I could do: * Chapter One lots of text * Chapter Two lots more text Is there anything wrong with this approach? I've used Org for novel translations, and do it just like this. If there are no logical divisions within chapters you probably don't want additional markup, it will just get in the way. If navigation is the problem, getting accustomed to keybindings like C-c C-n, C-c C-p, and C-c C-u can be very helpful. Also look at the docstring for `org-cycle', and you might consider binding a few outline-mode commands (like `hide-other') to your own keys, to help keep navigation and visibility under control. And don't forget that emacs has many other features beyond org which work nicely with org. In particular, if you want navigation without the headings, you can use bookmarks ((emacs) Bookmarks). I use these all the time. You don't need subheadings etc for these to work. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.1.50.1 : using Org release_7.8.11-69-ga2fd96
[O] plain text best practice?
howdy guys, I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily have very many headings or sub-headings. I could do: * Chapter One lots of text * Chapter Two lots more text or: * Chapter One - lots of text * Chapter Two - lots more text or: * Chapter One ** paragraph 1 lots of text ** paragraph 2 lots of text * Chapter Two ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but not as I write. Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode to just write? What do you do? thanks
Re: [O] plain text best practice?
scraw...@gmail.com writes: * Chapter One - lots of text * Chapter Two - lots more text These are lists (info (org)Plain lists). I do not think you want that. * Chapter One ** paragraph 1 lots of text ** paragraph 2 lots of text * Chapter Two This is exactly what org-indent-mode is for. Check (info (org)Clean view). Christopher
Re: [O] plain text best practice?
I'd go the first way if you don't need/use much markup, but if you want to structure more deeply your document, you can have subheadings without actually giving them a title (just the stars and a blank space are enough for a heading) It's also a matter of what you want to do with the document, if you plan to export it, the subheadings will change the result in ways you may like or dislike. (You don't seem to have any usage of lists, so simply don't go for them.) At Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:38:13 -0500, scraw...@gmail.com wrote: howdy guys, I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily have very many headings or sub-headings. I could do: * Chapter One lots of text * Chapter Two lots more text or: * Chapter One - lots of text * Chapter Two - lots more text or: * Chapter One ** paragraph 1 lots of text ** paragraph 2 lots of text * Chapter Two ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but not as I write. Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode to just write? What do you do? thanks
Re: [O] plain text best practice?
scraw...@gmail.com wrote: howdy guys, I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily have very many headings or sub-headings. I could do: * Chapter One lots of text * Chapter Two lots more text or: * Chapter One - lots of text * Chapter Two - lots more text or: * Chapter One ** paragraph 1 lots of text ** paragraph 2 lots of text * Chapter Two ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but not as I write. Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode to just write? What do you do? Use the first form. If you feel that the chapter needs to be split up, use second level headings to split it up into sections. If a section gets too big, use third-level headings for subsections. And so on... Org-mode is not buying you much in this case: you can navigate easily between chapters and you can hide the contents of all the other chapters while leaving exposed the one you are working on. But it doesn't cost anything either. And if you ever decide to publish the thing (on paper, as a PDF on the web, as HTML on the web, etc.), you will be able to trivially do it. So just write and don't sweat it too much. Nick
Re: [O] plain text best practice?
On Wed, Jun 06 2012, scraw...@gmail.com wrote: howdy guys, I want to use org-mode for writing documents that don't necessarily have very many headings or sub-headings. I could do: * Chapter One lots of text * Chapter Two lots more text Is there anything wrong with this approach? I've used Org for novel translations, and do it just like this. If there are no logical divisions within chapters you probably don't want additional markup, it will just get in the way. If navigation is the problem, getting accustomed to keybindings like C-c C-n, C-c C-p, and C-c C-u can be very helpful. Also look at the docstring for `org-cycle', and you might consider binding a few outline-mode commands (like `hide-other') to your own keys, to help keep navigation and visibility under control. Keep it simple! Eric or: * Chapter One - lots of text * Chapter Two - lots more text or: * Chapter One ** paragraph 1 lots of text ** paragraph 2 lots of text * Chapter Two ...but I'm not sure which to use. It almost seems like the last format is the best, but I don't want to type paragraph headings. Maybe the first few words of the paragraph could be a heading after the fact, but not as I write. Apologies for such a basic question, but I how can I leverage org-mode to just write? What do you do? thanks -- GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-06-06 on pellet 7.8.10
