Re: x-symbol?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:00:53 +0200, m_mommer@yahoo.com (Mario S. Mommer) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> > I believe that CDlatex mode does everything that x-symbol did and much
> > more in fact.
> 
> That might well be. I didn't know about it, although i did search for
> alternatives. Thanks.
> 
> > for the sugar, I don't know what to suggest for direct latex/tex code
> > but I can recommend you use org-mode for composing your text instead
> > and export to latex when required...  org-mode provides the display
> > sugar you wish (and much more).
> 
> Do you have any pointers? In particular regarding the display sugar. Can
> you preview the formulas to some extent?

In the org-mode manual, at least for recent versions (6.36+):

*Note (org)Top:: > *Note Markup:: > *Note Embedded LaTeX:: > Special symbols

> I have been somewhat reluctant to try to write an article in org mode,
> because it seems to me that the setups end up being very hairy and
> brittle. I have not tried it, though.

I use org-mode regularly for beamer presentations but I haven't used
it from start to finish yet for an article (mostly because *I* haven't
written an article from start to finish in a long time... that's what
PhD students are for ;-).  From my experience with org-mode for
beamer, however, unless you are doing very extreme things in latex,
org-mode should work very well indeed.  And especially when combined
with the org-mode specific CDlatex mode which provides for many
short-cuts for frequent latex constructions.

-- 
Eric S Fraga
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