Re: Orgmode + auctex + reftex + preview latex.

[Jean Louis]

I am LaTeX user since 2 decades. It is right that starting up may be harder. 
Once I have got my set of templates and shorts right, then it is easier than 
anything else and I need no special mode neither Emacs to produce high quality 
documents.

And I think it is same and even worse with visual weird professor such as 
LibreOffice. Until the user sets up a template for a letter time will pass.

I have in LaTeX German letter templates, so it is quick and without me thinking 
of formatting. Additionally serial letters I can write with any programming 
language as any language may output LaTeX. Adjusting addresses nicely to fit 
the transparent address window on an envelope is what LaTeX templates help me 
with. Many things are already there. System is so much more useful than visual 
time wasting word processing.

For books, articles, letters, business correspondence, LaTeX and similar TeX 
templates and indispensabile.

Imagine you want to write 30 letters for New Year to various users from various 
identities like business, private, make a template, populate with database 
field and write your personal message. One click, write message, and the rest 
is fine, even printed. Integration like that works with command line processing 
like Lout, LaTeX, groff, etc.

With visual stuff it is tedious hand work. 



Am December 27, 2020 2:29:14 AM UTC schrieb Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
>Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
>> Orgmode is powerful and great, but if I want to write latex
>> from within it, I also want to utilize the capabilities
>> supplied by, e.g., auctex, reftex, preview latex and so on.
>
>Hey, as they say, org-mode is for organizing material, not for
>producing documents :)
>
>(that's true. they say that)
>
>Not a fan of org-mode ... but TEHO.
>
>> Any hints/notes/comments for the co-operation and
>> combination of these tools will be highly appreciated.
>
>If you want to produce a document, IMO the easiest way is to
>write in `markdown-mode' and then use pandoc(1) to convert
>into whatever format you want.
>
>Unless you want to produce _really_ good-looking documents,
>and spend half a lifetime doing it, if so, use
>`latex-mode' [1]
>
>For everything else, text is fine.
>
>IMO!
>
>[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/borta/borta.pdf
>    https://dataswamp.org/~incal/hs-linux/docs/report/report.pdf
>    LaTeX: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/borta/
>           https://dataswamp.org/~incal/hs-linux/docs/report/report.tex