On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
On 2015-04-17, at 20:13, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
Everything you'll do in Org will simply involve passing the right
parameters to LaTeX via Org. In other words, you should start by
Personally, I prefer configuring on the LaTeX side, but this is because
I find it much easier.
Could you clarify "on the LaTeX side" (as in, post-Org, or LaTeX
altogether)? Or what you find easier? I think I'm probably on the same
page, but just wanted to hear your take. For me it comes down more to
the command/"micro-formatting" side. As in, for my resume, I went raw
LaTeX as it would have been ridiculous to try and do what I wanted
from Org (aka, I'd have just had #+begin/end_latex everywhere and thus
Org would literally just be a middle man). But if I'm using Org at
all, I prefer to figure out how to do the LaTeX stuff from Org;
otherwise when I inevitably miss something (typo, syntax, format
tweak) I have to re-export, then re-apply all my custom LaTeX tweaks
to the resultant .tex file.
For most reports and such, I don't adjust things that finely, and so
~5-10 #+latex_header lines seems completely worth it to have access to
markup vs. writing all that raw LaTeX. Plus it just looks nicer :)
finding out how to do what you want to do in LaTeX; for example google
"how to change line spacing latex" and peruse the top result:
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Paragraph_Formatting
Be cautious, though: the LaTeX wikibook has some parts which are very
outdated (at least this was the situation when I looked at it some time
ago). I'd rather recommend searching CTAN and searching/asking at
TeX.StackExchange.
Good to know! I wasn't aware of that and tend to just go for the first
google hit, which can sometimes be wikibook, but absolutely is often a
tex.SE Q/A.
Definitely look at paralist and enumitem for tweaking spacing as a
starting point.
Also, check out the titlesec package (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titlesec)
and/or memoir and/or koma-script.
Hope that helps.
John
Best,
Thanks for the input!
John
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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University