Re: [Orgmode] full production use of org-mode: time to say thanks again!

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have spent the last 2 months (or more) working on a serious project
> proposal which required the production of a 30+ page document,
> including tables, figures, footnotes and cross-references.  The
> preparation required working with 20+ people and managing a large
> number of tasks.  I used org for the whole process and for the
> creation of the actual document.
>
> I just want to say *thanks* to all (Carsten, of course, but also all
> the others that have contributed to org and babel) as it made the
> whole process as painless as something like this can be!
>
> I used the following features:
>
> - outlining, obviously!  very necessary as the document had a
> pre-defined structure imposed by an external party.
> - todo items, including in-line todos [1].
> - babel for figures and some in-line calculations
> - exporting, including to HTML (for conversion to Word via OOo) for
> allowing colleagues to edit text and to PDF for the actual delivery
> of the document (with very strict page formatting requirements).
> - version control, obviously, but not part of org, of course
>
> Everything worked (except for maybe the texi2dvi blip in the past few
> days) and did so incredibly smoothly!  Org didn't get in the way and I
> could really concentrate on the content instead of the formatting
> etc.  Brilliant!
>
> As an aside, I also had to prepare a new set of lecture slides for a
> course I teach.  I used org, of course, with beamer support.  Again,
> everything worked well.  What was particularly nice this time was that
> this particular course requires showing Octave code and the outputs of
> such code.  Babel, in combination with the listings latex package, is
> an ideal tool for this!  My slides look (in my obviously biased
> opinion) incredibly professional.

Can you publish the slides?  I'd like to take a look!
Maybe even with the source?

Cheers

- Carsten

> So, thanks all!
>
> eric
>
> PS - I now need to sleep for the next month or two... ;-)
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  If I have one niggle to report it is that indenting text after an
>    in-line todo doesn't seem to work properly: it indents any
>    subsequent paragraphs much too far, lining up with the headline
>    text for the in-line todo.  This seems conceptually wrong to me.
>    Not a big deal, mind you.

This is clearly a bug.  Nicolas, could you be persuaded to have a look  
at that?  You have worked on the indentation code reently in  
connection with the plain lists.

If not, let me know and I will take a look at that.

- Carsten