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Re: [O] How to write medical journal articles with org-mode
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Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
Re: [O] How to write medical journal articles with org-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:58:55 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
regcl <address@hidden> writes:
> I am looking for advice regarding how to write medical journal
> articles using org-mode.
>
> My primary motivations are the desire to ... automate the flow of data
> from computation to publication, avoid clerical errors, speed up the
> conversion of computational results to manuscript, and do 99.9% of my
> typing in emacs ;)
>
> My primary computation platform is linux clusters with OS X desktops.
> I have used org-mode for project management and HTML export of
> provisional computational results in working papers for ~1 year.
>
> I recently started using org-mode/babel/ESS/R to export computation
> results to HTML.
>
> It looks like the medical journals require MS word submissions. I
> have used the scheme shown below to get MSword to/from my
> collaborators for comments & corrections ...
>
> doc.org----------------------------------+
> | |
> v |
> M-x org-odt-export-to-odt |
> | |
> v |
> Open office |
> | |
> v |
> MS Word |
> | |
> v |
> doc.docx |
> | |
> v |
You can do it in a single step with
`org-odt-preferred-output-format'. See
(info "(org) Extending ODT export").
> 1) Has anyone out there used org-mode to produce medical journal
> articles (other than demonstration of reproducible research)?
> 3) How do I get references into MS word?
You can use ODT Export with JabRef using ox-jabref.el. You may want to
check whether the JabRef project has layout files that can create
citations in a format acceptable to Medical Journals. (Search the list
reverse chronologically.)