Re: First steps exporting to tex

[William Denton]

On 3 April 2021, Diego Zamboni wrote:

> I fully agree with Tim here - don't make things more complicated than
> necessary! Start with standard Org and the standard export, see how it
> works and adjust from there.

It's amazing what the combination of Org and LaTeX can do without any extra 
customization.  Now, it takes a good deal of skill to get them installed and 
know how to use them.  You can't just point a Google Drive user to a link and 
say, "Install this, it's easy."

But once you have them, you can make a simple Org document with a TITLE, a NAME, 
a couple of headings, a few subheadings, some paragraphs—all just plain 
text, nothing fancy—and then you export it to PDF and it looks like a published 
book or journal article!  When I first started doing that it amazed me.  I 
suppose I'm used to it now, but it is wonderful.

Bill
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