Tag Archives: Org

Looping Through Org Headings

I’ve got several functions that do some sort of processing on Org files. Many of them were written years ago when I was just starting with Org-mode and as a result, they often take a naive approach to, say, locating … Continue reading

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Using a Local Bibliography File with Org

Charl Botha has posted a handy guide to using a paper-specific bibliography file with Org mode. His use case is roughly that he wants to manage his bibliography with Zotero but wants to use Org Mode and John Kitchins org-ref … Continue reading

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Org Mode for PhD Students

It’s pretty much conventional wisdom that Org Mode is the killer app for Emacs. Even people who don’t use Emacs seem to be aware of that and, of course, there are various efforts underway to port Org to other editors. … Continue reading

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Pandoc Upgraded

If you do a lot of your writing with Org mode the way I do, you may sometimes need pandoc to help with exporting your work. If you are one of those people, Karl Voit has some good news for … Continue reading

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Kitchin: Day Two with Hy

Yesterday, I wrote about John Kitchin’s post on Hy, a Lisp dialect that essentially compiles to Python allowing you to write in Lisp while still having access to the Python RTL. Kitchin has published a new post describing his second … Continue reading

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Org Basics III

Ben Maughan has posted the third installment of his series on Org mode basics. This time he considers adding links and images to Org files. As usual, the majority of the presentation is in the form of an Org file … Continue reading

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How to Convert from Org to Word

If you’re like me, you’d rather take a pencil in the eye than write using Word or any of its evil spawn. Sometimes, though, you really need to deliver a doc file. Even in a lead engineer position I sometimes … Continue reading

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A System Wide Org Capture Key

Over at Think *NIX, PRJ2 has a nice post on setting up a system wide key to invoke Org capture. The idea is that even if Emacs isn’t running it will be launched and Org capture automatically called. He assigns … Continue reading

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Generating Graphs with Org and Dot

When I want to draw graph-like pictures I almost always use dot from the graphviz suite. The language is simple and it’s easy to generate it programmatically. Still, I don’t do it every day and so I always have to … Continue reading

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