From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike McLean Subject: Re: Org as a publishing toolkit Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4DCAA7FE.6000802@pobox.com> References: Reply-To: mike.mclean@pobox.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKB8p-0006fK-KQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:16:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKB8k-00088z-CC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:59 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:57814 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKB8k-000863-9n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:54 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E04303A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7AB3039 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from macxmcleanm.mclean (unknown [67.190.221.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 297B9301E for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 11:15:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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*.