Re: [emacs-humanities] Why Emacs-humanities?

[M . ‘quintus’ Gülker]

Dear all,

Am Sonntag, dem 20. Dezember 2020 schrieb Manuel Uberti:
> I fall somewhere in the middle of the intended audience for a more
> programming-oriented mailing list and this one, because I am Clojure developer
> working on my degree in Philosophy.

I think I am in a similar position. While I programme for the sake of
hobby (in C++), I am currently employed as a scientific assistant in Law
at a Chair for Public Law while intending to work towards a PhD. When I
saw this list announcement I got interested. I took the liberty to
expand the term "humanities" to include Law, but I hope this is
accepted.

> However, I intend to follow the discussions on this list, share my experience
> and maybe help anyone who may approach Emacs for writing as I do (Markdown
> mainly, but LaTeX too).

I have used Emacs and LaTeX for all paper work the Law studies required
and never looked back. The problem I now face is more practical and has
made me switch to Org for authoring: publishers for scientific law
journals generally expect everyone to submit Word documents. With Org, I
can export to ODT and convert that to DOCX with LibreOffice. It works
kind of, but problems remain (namely when the publisher follows up with
changes in Word's change tracking mode...).

  -quintus

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