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Org-mode Nick Higham April 22, 2013 Nick Higham Org-mode 1 / 7 University of Manchester

What is Org Mode? Emacs mode for note taking task management tables and spreadsheets producing L A T 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 Nick Higham Org-mode 2 / 7 University of Manchester

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 Nick Higham Org-mode 3 / 7 University of Manchester

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 A T EXcommands. It is based on ascii text which is inherently portable. Emacs! Nick Higham Org-mode 4 / 7 University of Manchester

Two columns this slide consists of Gershgorin Discs two columns 2 the first (left) 1 column has no 0 heading and consists −1 of text −2 −4 −3 −2 −1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 the second (right) column has an image and is enclosed in an example block Nick Higham Org-mode 5 / 7 University of Manchester

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 A CTIVE D OCUMENTS WITH O RG -M ODE By Eric Schulte and Dan Davison Org-mode is a simple, plain-text markup language for hierarchical documents that allows the intermingling of data, code, and prose. O Nick Higham Org-mode 6 / 7 University of Manchester

Literate programming & Reproducible Research (2) Journal of Statistical Software JSS January 2012, Volume 46, Issue 3. http://www.jstatsoft.org/ A Multi-Language Computing Environment for Literate Programming and Reproducible Research Eric Schulte Dan Davison University of New Mexico Counsyl Thomas Dye Carsten Dominik University of Hawai‘i University of Amsterdam Nick Higham Org-mode 7 / 7 University of Manchester ❼ ❼