u/cog2011in r/emacs • Recommends
Emacs for Writers (Presentation by Jay Dixit, mostly about org-mode)
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- Recommended by 6 people: 3 on Hacker News, 1 on Lobsters and 2 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2015 to 2024.
- Presented by Jay Dixit, science writer
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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Science writer Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs as a non-programmer to organize, edit, and research his writing projects.
Jay Dixit is a science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Psychology Today. Jay will discuss how he uses Emacs as a non-programmer, and how Emacs has made him a more productive writer, editor, and researcher. Learn more from the developers at thoughtbot ⌨️ Head over to tbot.io/dev-blog to read more great articles on our blog.Why it's here
6 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an inspiring demonstration of adapting Emacs and plain-text workflows for creative writing and research.
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u/sprayfoampartyin r/emacs • Recommends
Emacs For Writers - Jay Dixit on how he uses Emacs as a non-programmer, and how Emacs has made him a more productive writer, editor, and researcher
bjolion Hacker News • Recommends
On “NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels”
My favourite talk on this topic is "Emacs for writers": link to this video If you are working with plain text, use something that excels at working with text. I saw another of his talks, and how he works in Emacs is amazing.
bjolion Hacker News • Recommends
On “WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)”
There is always Emacs. I love this talk by Joe Dixit about how he came from things like scrivener to Emacs link to this video
cduboseon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Best (Tech) talks from 2015”
I'm not sure if I would define it as a "talk" (and the details are more meaningful if you know how to use Emacs), but Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs for writing instead of programming: link to this video
Johnny_Brahmson Hacker News • Recommends
On “How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools”
I saw this a couple of weeks ago: link to this video I really like how he has no idea how to pronounce stuff, but he still managed to bend emacs after his will.
u/moseswithhisbooksin r/emacs • Mentions
…tario ;; Canada
We are meeting in McMaster's Integrated Technology Building, ITB 201, on Friday May 3rd at 4pm. Please contact me or use our discord if you have any queries or would like to present on any topic; otherwise feel free to simply share tidbits when you attend!
Discord channel :: https://discord.gg/JaPTBzk
Video from last meeup :: [video
Refreshments will be served thanks to the LICS initiative ;; https://lics.cas.mcmaster.ca/
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\+ Everyone is welcome!
\+ No need to be a coder; fictional writers encouraged to come and learn about
Org-mode. See [video
\+ Interested in generating multiple formats such as HTML, PDF, LaTeX, ASCII, code, etc
from a single…
u/Kebairiain r/emacs • Mentions
Emacs for writers
I want to write a short book using org\-mode , so i was asking if there is a better way to write a good looking book using css and org mode and then export it into a pdf file.
for example:I have saw this meeting "Emacs For Writers"
and i was impressed by one of the results presented by the speaker !
Does anyone know how I can get a similar result ?
u/muddi900in r/emacs • Mentions
nooborg-mode custom Latex/PDF export custom style.
I usually write reports for my employees in org-mode and export them to PDF via the built-in LaTeX/PDF export tool. Now, the style is rather lacking. I googled around and came across a link to this video where a guy had a great layout for his exports. He shared a link to the eLisp source file. But how do I implement it myself?
TremendousJudgeon Hacker News • Mentions
On “The LaTeX fetish (2016)”
>The idea of somebody critiquing Latex for being a difficult format to write in while writing almost exclusively plaintext is pretty baffling to me Creative writers for instance don't really care about typesetting; they want to keep their manuscript organized and to be able to change it easily. Here's en example1 of a writer showing his personal workflow for writing (in this case using emacs) and you'll see what I mean 1 link to this video
julianeonon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Making Emacs Popular Again”
…the Boiler Room of Amazon. Four young women found out I was in Customer Service, cornered me, and talked for fifteen minutes about how much they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing) still just wasn't doing it for them." Hell, there's even a 1-hour series on YouTube called "Emacs for Writers." link to this video Spoiler: I skimmed it and it's as I thought - it's largely about Emacs…
u/ThisKappaIsGreyin r/emacs • Mentions
Abbrev-mode: where to find abbreviations for common words?
I was watching this youtube video Emacs for Writers , and the presenter was using `abbrev-mode`. He had a bunch of words defined as abbreviations in his config file but I couldn't find his `.emacs.d` on the internet. Is there somewhere I could look for abbreviations defined for common words? Thank you!
u/OldError6in r/emacs • Mentions
Question about org-mode indirect buffer: 2 pane writing setup
I use emacs as a tool to quickly process text while retaining vim's modal editing through evil-mode. I want to set up a 2-pane writing system in org-mode (similar to this and this). I'm using org-tree-to-indirect-buffer, and want to have the following functionality:
1. 2nd pane: When the cursor is on a heading/ sub-heading, upon pressing a custom key (say Enter), a 2nd pane should open up with just that heading/ subheading in this new (editable) buffer of a specific size (preferably spanning 75% of the horizontal space of the frame).
2. Switch back and forth between the main document and the 2nd pane using keyboard shortcuts.…