Org-mode as a Swiss-army publishing tool

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I have two large publishing needs: (1) creating pdfs by LaTeX and (2) writing stuffs on this Hugo-powered website i.e. to write Blackfriday-compatible Markdown files.

Nowadays, I neither write LaTeX or Markdown documents directly, but instead write in Emacs Org-mode and convert the document to my desired format. I mentioned my Org-mode setups for pdfs on this website 5 years ago and my configurations have slowly evolves since then. On the website publishing side, the excellent package ox-hugo works nicely.

Writing LaTeX PDF documents using Emacs Org-Mode

Thu, 17 May 2018 05:47:23 +0700

I love Emacs. It is a programmable text editor that streamlined many of my workflows. Nowadays, I do most of my computer-related tasks via Emacs, and writing is one of them.

$\LaTeX$ is the industry standard when it comes to publishing scientific documents. The problem is, sometimes writing .tex documents can be tedious due to LaTeX’s complicated syntax. That is why I use simpler markup formats (like .org or .markdown) to write documents, convert them to .tex and later compile the converted .tex into pdf files.

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Org-mode as a Swiss-army publishing tool

Writing LaTeX PDF documents using Emacs Org-Mode