Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org 9.0

Org Mode version 9.0 has been released and is ready for update. Take a look at the Changes file to see what’s new. I’ve had it installed for less than an hour as I write this so it’s a little … Continue reading

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The EOS Org Mode Configuration

Yesterday, I wrote about Lee Hinman’s EOS Emacs configuration and mentioned that because the configuration is factored into modules, it’s easy to adapt them to our own configurations. An example of this is Hinman’s Org Mode configuration. It’s a treasure … Continue reading

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A Literate Programming Example with Org Mode

Arne Babenhauserheide has posted a nice example of literate programming with Org mode. It’s a bare-bones example but shows what you can do including stitching code blocks together. Using Org mode for literate programming probably isn’t as powerful as something … Continue reading

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Reproducible Research Webinar

Back in June I wrote about A Complete Example of Reproducible Research with Org. One of the authors of that paper was Arnaud Legrand who has an excellent webinar on reproducible research. Sadly, the video of the talk is in … Continue reading

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Org Babel and Applescript

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting project that integrates Org Babel and Applescript. If you’re a Mac user and sometimes work with Applescript (or even if you want to play around with it) you should … Continue reading

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Capturing Images with Org Mode

Back in January, I came across a post by Arne Babenhauserheide on capturing images into Org. It looked interesting but required Image Magick, which doesn’t play well with OS X1. I thought at the time that it would be pretty … Continue reading

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Escaping Org Examples in Org

From Karl Voit we have this really useful piece of advice: TIL: you can use "org" blocks to write #orgmode examples and org-edit-special resulting in correct escaping: https://t.co/oeIR1sccfZ — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) August 30, 2016 If you follow the link … Continue reading

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Two New König Videos

Rainer König has posted two new videos in his OrgMode Tutorial series. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us it’s raining in Augsburg so König has had to forego gardening in favor of making more of his excellent Org Mode … Continue reading

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Data Sharing in Publications

John Kitchin has a really interesting article in ACS Catalysis on Effective Data Sharing in Scientific Publishing. In it, Kitchin discusses various strategies for embedding supporting data—such as tables and processing code—in a publication’s PDF or source file so that … Continue reading

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Scimax

The ACM Technews newsletter has a short piece on John Kitchin’s Scimax project. Here’s the CMU article on Scimax, which gives an overview of the project. Basically, Scimax is the collection of (mostly) Elisp utilities that Kitchin has put together … Continue reading

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