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Org-mode

Nick Higham April 22, 2013

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What is Org Mode?

Emacs mode for note taking task management tables and spreadsheets producing L

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EX documents and web pages literate programming reproducible research

1 An org file is plain text. 2 Org files can be exported to many other formats. 3 Org mode is included in Emacs distribution University of Manchester Nick Higham Org-mode 2 / 7

History

Written by Carsten Dominik in 2003 as improvement to Emacs outline mode. Many other contributors. Latest version is 8.0 (April 2013). Quote The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work. —Donald E. Knuth The Art of Computer Programming

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A more complex slide

This slide illustrates the use of Beamer blocks. The following text, with its own headline, is displayed in a block: Theorem (Org mode increases productivity) Org mode means not having to remember L

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EXcommands. It is based on ascii text which is inherently portable. Emacs!

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Two columns

this slide consists of two columns the first (left) column has no heading and consists

• f text

the second (right) column has an image and is enclosed in an example block Gershgorin Discs

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Literate programming & Reproducible Research (1)

S C I E N T I F I C P R O G R A M M I N G

Editors: Konstantin Läufer, laufer@cs.luc.edu Konrad Hinsen, hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr

ACTIVE DOCUMENTS

WITH ORG-MODE

By Eric Schulte and Dan Davison

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Org-mode is a simple, plain-text markup language for hierarchical documents that allows the intermingling

• f data, code, and prose.

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Literate programming & Reproducible Research (2)

JSS

Journal of Statistical Software

January 2012, Volume 46, Issue 3. http://www.jstatsoft.org/

A Multi-Language Computing Environment for Literate Programming and Reproducible Research

Eric Schulte

University of New Mexico

Dan Davison

Counsyl

Thomas Dye

University of Hawai‘i

Carsten Dominik

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