Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org-Babel Examples

Posted on 2015-06-29 by jcs

I haven’t written about using Babel with Org mode for a long time but it’s something I use everyday. Most of those uses are trivial but the full power is there when I need it. I can produce summary data … Continue reading →

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Lisp Functions in Org Table Calculations

Posted on 2015-06-25 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a nice post on how she uses an Org table to keep track of medications her family needs and how it automatically calculates how many she needs to buy based on how long they need to be … Continue reading →

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Org and Beamer

Posted on 2015-06-22 by jcs

Presentation software. Windows has Power Point, Apple has Keynote, and Linux has Open Office. Everyone hates presentation software and everyone uses it. If you’re someone who works on multiple platforms, you might have to learn to use two or more … Continue reading →

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Adding Custom CSS to a WordPress Site

Posted on 2015-06-17 by jcs

When I first started blogging with WordPress, I needed some custom CSS. Being a WordPress n00b, I simply added it to the theme’s CSS file that controls what the site looks like. Of course, that bad decision came back to … Continue reading →

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Sacha on Supplying an Argument to a Capture Template Function

Posted on 2015-06-16 by jcs

Org mode capture templates are more flexible than you might think. You can specify that the entry be stored in a file in a variety of ways. You can, for instance, ask that it be put in a date tree … Continue reading →

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Filtering by Tag in EShell

Posted on 2015-06-11 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nifty bit of Elisp that allows you to filter on file tags in eshell. As an example of his idea, suppose I want to list all my blog posts with a tag of “Emacs”. I can … Continue reading →

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Writing a Master Thesis in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-06-05 by jcs

One way or another, I end up using Org mode for almost all my writing. Blog posts are easy to write in Org and then export with org2blog, and Org brings all the power of LaTeX with an easier interface. … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research in the Small

Posted on 2015-06-02 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research and have written about it many times. I usually think of it as something you do with a large project that is going to produce one or more … Continue reading →

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From Date to Agenda

Posted on 2015-06-01 by jcs

Here’s a useful tip for bringing up the agenda for a given date. If you have the point on an Org date, typing 【Ctrl+c Ctrl+o】 will bring up the agenda for that date. This is really useful if you have … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Embedding Org in HTML

Posted on 2015-05-26 by jcs

John Kitchin has an interesting post on embedding Org documents in HTML. The idea is that you embed the Org in a data URI so that the user can click on the URI and see the Org code. This is … Continue reading →

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