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Re: Boldface typing


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: Boldface typing
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:25:54 +0100

On 2014-12-31, at 05:55, Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> emacs does a rather poor job of word processing
>
> The solution in the emacs/unix world 20 years ago was latex/groff etc -- ie
> document processors

Today, the solution is LaTeX (without the groff part), possibly ConTeXt
(see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page), and of course the new kid
on the block, Org-mode (which can export to LaTeX, but not (yet) to
ConTeXt).

> Today the goto-solution for this (and 1000 other things) in emacs-land is org 
> mode.
> It does have a long learning curve though...

What?  No, really.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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