[dundee] Emacs and org-mode

[Nistur]

Rawr. Ok, I have my completed dissertation in org-mode (with some
embedded LaTeX) I have a list of references in a BibTex file... WHAT
NOW? :S:S:S
How do I get these linked? How do I compile them? Arghh Panic!

I have manual compilation steps that say that I run:
latex Dissertation
bibtex Dissertation
latex Dissertation
latex Dissertation

Which is all cool, I can do that... but I'd prefer not to have to do
it manually every time as I'm still editing (yay last minute!) and may
need to recompile a couple of times. Anyone know how to get
org-export-as-pdf to link them? Rawr. My google-fu has left me :(

If I can just get the bibliography working I'll be swimming
meh

Nistur


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:13:58PM +0100, Nistur wrote:
>> Anyone? Ideas please?
>
> If I'm understanding what you want correctly boxedminipage should do
> what you want. A useful command for giving things widths is
> \textwidth, you can multiply it by things as well so 0.5\textwidth
> gives you a measurement that is half the width of the text.
>
> A boxedminipage can be created something like:
>
> % in the preamble (before \begin{document}):
> \usepackage{boxedminipage}
>
> % Where you want the "textbox":
> \begin{boxedminipage}{0.9\textwidth}
> Stuff to be in the textbox goes here.
> \end{boxedminipage}
>
> Alternatively if you were after a "textbox" with a different
> background colour rather than a frame you could use \colorbox round a
> minipage:
>
> \colorbox{red}{
> \begin{minipage}
> Text goes here.
> \end{minipage}
> }
>
> Or you could use a \colorbox around a boxedminipage to get a
> background colour and a frame but on my system the colour extends
> outside the outline which looks odd to me. That is probably fixable
> with a bit of tweaking but maybe your time can be better spent on
> other things if you have a looming deadline :)
>
> If you want a more attractive textbox I'd do it with the tikz package
> (mainly because I know how to from using it to draw diagrams, it's
> almost certainly not the Right Way).
>
> %preamble:
> \usepackage{tikz}
> \usetikzlibrary{shapes}
> \tikzstyle{textbox} = [rectangle, draw=red, line width=0.1cm,
> fill=blue!10, text width=\textwidth, rounded corners]
>
> % Make the textbox:
> \begin{tikzpicture}
> \node [textbox] {
> Content of the textbox goes here.
>
> };
> \end{tikzpicture}
>
> You can wrap that in a \figure if you want it to float.  The
> \tikzstyle defines what the "textbox" will look like, I would think
> fill line width and line colour (draw=) would be the only things you'd
> want to play with but tikz can do complicated things with styles
> (decorators might be worth having a look at for adding "flourishes" to
> the textbox).
>
> I created an example document with the three ways of doing it:
> http://bodaegl.ormiret.com/foo/textbox.tex
> and the pdf that generates:
> http://bodaegl.ormiret.com/foo/textbox.pdf
>
> Latex can be a bit more work to find the right packages and
> environments etc. to make the things you need for the type of
> documents you're writing, but once you've found them you get decent
> documents with a lot less effort. Up here theses had to be in last
> week and I spent a chunk of the week helping people try and figure out
> weird things with word moving stuff around when they tried to print.
>
>       Robert
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