Tag Archives: Org-mode

Capturing BibTeX Entries with Google Scholar

Posted on 2016-08-21 by jcs

Brad Collins has a nice post on collecting BibTeX citations. As he notes, there are plenty of articles on how to generate a citation in Org mode from a BibTeX entry but not on how to gather the entries to … Continue reading →

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König #28: Publishing

Posted on 2016-08-20 by jcs

Rainer König has posted the latest video in his Orgmode Tutorial series. This time he looks at publishing. Publishing is a sort of generalization of exporting that allows you export whole projects at a time. König begins by showing us … Continue reading →

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Rainer König on Advanced Exporting in Org Mode

Posted on 2016-08-17 by jcs

Rainer König has posted the latest video in his Orgmode Tutorial series. This time it’s about Advanced Exporting. König starts with a single Org mode document and exports it to Beamer, PDF, and ODT. The file was written with Beamer … Continue reading →

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More Spice with Emacs and Org Mode

Posted on 2016-08-14 by jcs

Tiago Oliveira Weber has a nice followup to his previous post on doing spice experiments with Org mode. I wrote about his previous post last month. His latest offering discusses how you can explore design ideas, perform calculations, run circuit … Continue reading →

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Migrate Data From Evernote to Org

Posted on 2016-08-09 by jcs

Although I generally avoid committing data to proprietary applications, I find Evernote useful for capturing Web articles that I might want to revisit. If it’s really important, it goes into my journal, perhaps with a link to the original site … Continue reading →

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New Video in OrgMode Tutorial Series

Posted on 2016-08-06 by jcs

Rainer König has posted his latest video in the OrgMode Tutorial series. This time it’s about exporting from Org mode. König begins by remarking that he rarely uses this facility, which surprised me. It surprised me because I am always … Continue reading →

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Org Template for Specification Documents

Posted on 2016-08-01 by jcs

Karsten Schmidt published a really nice template for producing great looking specification documents. The result looks like this. Here is the Org document that produced that output. The whole project, including the CSS style sheet is on GitHub. You may … Continue reading →

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Why Literate Programming: One Man’s Answer

Posted on 2016-07-26 by jcs

Shane Cellos has a nice post on why literate programming makes sense. He tells the story of how he and an equally matched colleague worked on a relatively simple project. It was, he says, an ideal situation. One colleague with … Continue reading →

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Reveal.js and Org Mode

Posted on 2016-07-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back from his trip and has a new video up. It’s on making presentations with reveal.js and Org mode. This is a nice introduction to reveal.js and shows how easy it is to make a nice looking1 … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Note Taking

Posted on 2016-07-16 by jcs

Günther Hutter has a nice post on taking notes that can be exported to a nice looking document. His strategy is to use markdown to take the notes and then use pandoc to export them to \(\LaTeX\) and produce a … Continue reading →

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