Re: [O] Using orgmode to take "inline notes" for research

[Eric S Fraga]

John Hendy <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> - I looked at the package and example and rather liked the side-page
> type for small little notes. Sooooo cool. But, alas, removing the
> '[inline]' gave me undefined control sequence errors. When I ran it
> from the .tex file directly, it kind of worked, but my little box was
> really smushed and off the page. I'm guessing that my desire for
> narrower page margins isn't helping (I have geometry setting hmargins
> to 2cm)?

It is cool but doesn't play well with margins, as you have seen.  I've
given up on cool and use the following instead:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(latex "%s\\footnote{%s\\\\ %s}\\marginpar{\\fbox{\\thefootnote}}"
                                               '((unless
                                                     (eq todo "")
                                                   (format 
"\\fbox{\\textsc{%s%s}}" todo priority))
                                                 heading content))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> - Some of my notes are multi paragraphs, which I prefer non-indented
> and separated by a line break rather than no line break and indented.
> But when exported, multiple paragraphs just "stack up" with no line
> break. Can I add this to your format?

Yes, this is a problem with latex and not org.  It is very difficult
(read: I have never managed to figure out how to do it ;-) to control
the parskip and parsep aspects of paragraphs in a footnote.  The
=endnotes= package should allow you to control the behaviour more but
even there I have not been entirely successful (I can get it to listen
to parskip but not parident settings).

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
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