From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Torsten Wagner Subject: Re: Writing a dissertation using org-mode Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:33:33 +0900 Message-ID: <4B8F462D.1090702@gmail.com> References: <87vddcu22l.fsf@belvoir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nn3gy-0005mt-M7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:33:48 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37341 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nn3gx-0005mV-Iz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:33:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nn3gw-0000Dn-GC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:33:47 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:51010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nn3gw-0000Dc-C7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:33:46 -0500 Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so2109086gye.0 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:33:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87vddcu22l.fsf@belvoir.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Henri-Paul Indiogine Cc: emacs-orgmode Dear Henri, On 03/04/2010 01:45 PM, Henri-Paul Indiogine wrote: > I started writing my doctoral dissertation in history using org-mode. I > am also using git.el for my version control and gnus for my email. Of > course I export my org file to LaTeX which I compile to pdf. My > bibliography is managed using BibTeX. please consider that you might have to follow a very stricy layout style depening on your university, department, lab or supervisor. If your are lucky there will be a LaTeX template somewhere at your university. If you are unlucky there is nothing like that or even worse only a MS-word template. I'm not sure how good org-mode might be usable in that case. org-mode is really great and I try to use it for many purposes. However, for a thesis I would use directly LaTeX which gives me a bit more control of what is going on. Furthermore, try biber [1] and biblatex [2]... the somehow next generation of bibtex and bib-file compatible. For me they work very well already despite of the fact that they are still beta-versions. biblatex gives you much more freedom of formatting your citations and bibliography... I guess both highly needed in your scientific field. Good luck Torsten [1] http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html