Tag Archives: Org-mode

I recently came across this post by Chung-hong Chan on academic writing in Emacs that really annoyed me. It’s not anything that Chan said that put my back up but rather a common supposition that he mentioned that I and … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I wrote about Org-9.6 failing to load after my weekly update. I’m happy to report that due to the advice of the excellent Irreal readers Fran Burstall and Mike S, I have resolved the problem. The problem turns out … Continue reading →

My usual routine is to update my Emacs packages on Sunday. After my last update, I restarted Emacs and Org wouldn’t load, complaining that org-assert-version was an invalid function. After a bit of messing around, I uninstalled Org-9.6 from my … Continue reading →

Kiran Gopinathan has built an interesting little app to view Org files in the browser. If you’re like me and want to stay in Emacs as much as possible, you may be wondering anyone would build such a thing. Gopinathan … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii just announced that he’s cut the Emacs-29 release branch. Emacs 29.1 is still some time away; Zaretskii says that’s he’s hoping to have the first pretest in a couple of months. Still, it’s great to see progress being … Continue reading →

Everybody hates slide decks. Jeff Bezos even famously banned them from Amazon. Still, most of us who are called upon to give a presentation will make slides the center of that presentation. There are, of course, dedicated programs like PowerPoint, … Continue reading →

Alex Kladov has a post that discusses various markup languages and what makes a great one. He considers Markdown AsciiDoctor LaTeX reStructuredText HTML He finds them all lacking in various ways. He believes that any markup that’s tied to a … Continue reading →

Erik L. Arneson has a useful post that describes his method of converting an Org document to DOCX. His reason for doing that is the usual: his clients want a Word document but like all right thinking people, Arneson prefers … Continue reading →

Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →