Re: want a file format easily edited and read by emacs that allows (multiple) pictures to be included

[Rusi]

On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 8:03:42 AM UTC+5:30, dan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Rusi wrote:
> > My post:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00732.html
> 
> Very, very good, imho.
> 
> Especially the fact that it's in org itself, so a person can download
> it and work through it, in org.

Slightly more expanded version (way more to go!)
------------ cut here into a file And GO!------------------
#+TITLE: Introduction to Org Mode
* Introduction
This file is an org mode formatted file talking about org mode.
- Physicists call this a hologram
- Astrologers call this palmistry
- [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence][Poets]] 
describes it thusly
#+BEGIN_VERSE
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
   And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
   And Eternity in an hour

William Blake
#+END_VERSE
- We computer folk call it recursion

** Note: 
It would make no sense
- without emacs running… and
- the reader at least modestly familiar with it

BTW… 
** History
It got written in the first place because someone unfamiliar with emacs was 
annoyed how difficult he found org mode.

Yes, org mode is a highly non-trivial piece of software; not knowing emacs 
makes it considerably harder!!

There exist other tutorials for those needing to start with emacs
* Preliminary
** Outline navigation
*** TODO
Fill out this section along the lines of emacs tutorial to show TAB and S-TAB
* Org Philosophy
What is org??
** Outline Mode
Both conceptually and historically org is just outline mode with better 
key-bindings.  IOW its v v text-y
** … Takes off!
Once the neatness and elegance of pure text with folding and structure-
editing caught on all sorts of stuff started getting added — tags, tables,
TODOs, timestamps, exports, literate programming etc etc — all in pure text.

Brings me to a very central idea of computer science…
** Universality
(aka universal Turing machine etc)

Text is text whether Newton uses it to write Principia, Tolstoy to write
War&Peace; lovers write love-letters and judges write death-warrants — all text.
But unlike the universality of TMs and von Neumann machines the universality of
org is *data-universality*… which makes org a close analogue and even isomorph 
of…
** Lisp!
Lisp as a programming language is of minor significance (org is written in 
ELisp)
Lisp as a universal data format (like XML) is a much bigger idea
So in the same way that an S-exp is a structure that
- can be a simple shopping list
- a more complex data list (think csv file)
- the most complex of all ­— a Lisp program

all hinging on the super-simple idea of uniform recursive nesting,
in a like manner org nests pure text (like lisp atoms) into recursive
heading structure 
* Brainstorming
Once 
- TAB, S-TAB for visibility cycling
- Structure navigation (~M-←~, ~M-→~, ~M-↑~, ~M-↓~) 
are grokked, try them out right here!
* Exporting and Publishing
** html export
** Odt export
** Web publishing
** Latex publishing
** Presentations
*** Lightweight options
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentations.html
*** Beamer
* Babel
** For programming
** For teaching programming
** For doing science (R)
** For scientific publishing (R+Latex)
* Time/project mgmt (GTD)
** Agenda
** Time tracking
** capture-archive
** Journalling
** org-habit
* Tables and spreadsheets
* Integration with other emacs uses
** gnus
** bbdb/ org-contacts
** firefox (org-protocol)
** graphics (R, ditaa...)
* Options :noexport:
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#+STARTUP: showall
Local Variables:
mode: org
eval: (org-indent-mode)
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