Re: LaTeX tutorial (focused on what Org exports) ??

[William Denton]

On 30 December 2022, Thomas S. Dye wrote:

> Org's latex exporter is exceptionally capable.  AFAICT, it doesn't have 
> practical limits on the LaTeX it produces, at least for my academic use case. 
> I'm able to use all of the LaTeX packages I've ever wanted to use.

Me too, and the more I use Org with LaTeX, the more I'm seeing how I can use Org 
as a way to organize a large publishing project: use literate programming and 
export the LaTeX piece by piece, documenting what I'm doing; use source blocks 
to run necessary code to prepare images or files before inclusion; and so on.

Using Org (simple markup plus some +latex_header lines) and exporting to LaTeX 
is straightforward enough ... managing a project, with the LaTeX as code to be 
generated, can get a lot more complicated, but on the other hand, Org makes that 
kind of thing simpler.  (Of course, anything involving LaTeX is bound to get 
complicated pretty soon.)

I've learned a lot from several regulars on this mailing list, including Juan 
Manuel Macías, who does remarkable work on dictionaries and translations. 
Here's an example:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-06/msg00348.html

Along with all the other recommendations, it's worth looking at the user guide 
for the memoir class, which is great for books:

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/memoir

It'll be somewhere on your system as memman.pdf.  I learned a lot about page 
design and LaTeX from it.


Cheers,

Bill

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