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

[David Masterson]

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.

I'll have to make time for this.  Thanks.

-- 
David Masterson