Tag Archives: Org-mode

Typesetting the TeX and LaTeX Symbols with Org Mode

After writing yesterday’s post, I poked around a bit on Higham’s site looking at some of his recent posts. I’m glad I did because I discovered that something I’ve wanted to do is possible. Occasionally I want to typeset the … Continue reading

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Tweets on Emacs and Org Mode

Nick Higham, whom I’ve mentioned before (1, 2), is a Mathematician and Emacs user. He also, apparently, is like me in that he likes collecting odd bits of information and data. One bit of data that he likes to collect … Continue reading

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König 36: A Third Way of Setting and Tracking Goals

Rainer König is back with a followup to his previous video on setting and tracking goals that I wrote about a week ago. This time he approaches the task using hierarchial tags. With hierarchial tags, you give a set of … Continue reading

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Org 9.1.5

Over the holidays, Bastien Guerry announced a new Org mode version: 9.1.5: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.5, a bugfix release, is out. Merry chrismas and happy hacking! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) December 24, 2017 Another nice Christmas gift from the folks in … Continue reading

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OrgMode Tutorial Episode 7, Snippet 5

It’s Christmas Eve and Rainer König has just landed his sleigh on the roof of the Irreal International Headquarters with a gift. After a long absence, he’s back with another episode of his OrgMode Tutorial video series. This time he … Continue reading

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Exporting DOCX/ODT Documents With a Style Sheet

Karl Voit has a really handy tip for those of you unfortunate enough to have to deal with Word (or its evil siblings) documents. Many folks in that cohort make do writing in Org mode and exporting to ODT. If … Continue reading

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End Your List Items with a Period

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has helped me resolve a long standing conundrum. When I have a list like this I can never decide whether or not to end each list item with a period. I can adduce … Continue reading

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Sacha on External Brains

Back in September, I wrote about Jeff Terrell’s excellent video on using Emacs and Org Mode as an exocortex. “Exocortex” for these purposes means an “external brain” of some sort that is used for off-loading thoughts and plans that aren’t … Continue reading

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Org 9.1.4

Bastien tweets to let us know there’s a new Org out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.4 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) December 5, 2017 It’s not in Melpa as of [2017-12-05 Tue 13:08] but will doubtless appear in the next … Continue reading

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Org 9.1.3 Is Out

Bastien tell us that there’s a new Org mode (a bug fix) out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.3, a bugfix release, is out! And @ThierryStoehr will give an introductory presentation this weekend at https://t.co/NmNtsoaBlu cc @capitoledulibre — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) November 16, … Continue reading

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