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Re: does org mode require a separate LaTeX installation to export?
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Christopher W. Ryan |
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Re: does org mode require a separate LaTeX installation to export? |
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Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:40:41 -0400 |
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Thanks Bill!
William Denton wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 08:55, Christopher W. Ryan
> <cryan@binghamton.edu> wrote:
>
>> In other words, if a complete novice, knowing nothing about LaTeX and
>> not having it on their machine ever, installed emacs and created an org
>> mode file, could they export via latex to PDF? Could they export to html?
>
> To HTML, yes. They could export to a LaTeX file, but they wouldn't be able
> to do anything with it: to make the PDF they'd need the LaTeX environment,
> which Org relies on. (Exporting to OpenDocument, .odt, works out of the box,
> so if they have LibreOffice or Word they could use that to convert to PDF,
> which might be more approachable, if that helps.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
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> William Denton
> https://www.miskatonic.org/
> Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
> Toronto, Canada
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