{"id":9910,"date":"2021-08-15T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2021-08-15T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:53:17","slug":"prettifying-org-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9910","title":{"rendered":"Prettifying Org-mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Prevos has a nice post in his <a href=\"https:\/\/lucidmanager.org\/productivity\/more-productive-with-emacs\/\">using Emacs to be more productive<\/a> series. The post, <a href=\"https:\/\/lucidmanager.org\/productivity\/ricing-org-mode\/\">Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment<\/a>, discusses how to make the org-mode buffer \u201cprettier.\u201d It\u2019s very much like Abhinav Tushar\u2019s post that I <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7546\">wrote about<\/a> back in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in that previous post, I always find this kind of thing interesting but I\u2019m unlikely to replicate the setup on my systems. That may be because I have old-timey sensibilities but I think it\u2019s because I really, truly believe in and prefer markup systems for entering text. If you use org-mode for writing your posts\/articles\/books, you\u2019re making the decision that you prefer the control and advantages that plain text provides over the WYSIWYG bling of word processors such as Word.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re one of those people, why would you want the distractions that a semi-WYSIWYG setup brings? To me, it means that the text is harder to edit. If you hide the markers for, say, <i>italic<\/i> text, it\u2019s that much harder to remove the italics or change it to something else such as <b>bold<\/b>. The same applies to replacing the header stars with \u201cfancy bullets.\u201d They make it that much harder to interpolate another subtree.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, that\u2019s just me. Other people may prefer such things and, as always, Emacs lets you have it your way. And to be honest, I <i>do<\/i> use some of his suggestions. I like displaying in-line images and turning on prettify entities so that rudimentary mathematics is displayed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I can\u2019t help but feel that if you want to write in markup, then use markup. On the other hand, to channel DMR, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/I\/If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html\">if you want WYSIWYG, you know where to find it<\/a>. If you disagree, take a look at Prevos\u2019 post to see how you can make things look prettier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Prevos has a nice post in his using Emacs to be more productive series. The post, Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment, discusses how to make the org-mode buffer \u201cprettier.\u201d It\u2019s very much like Abhinav Tushar\u2019s post that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-9910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9911,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}