Answers: latex - Disabling automatic footnotes in Emacs org-mode

Trevor Alexander

I have some LaTeX inside an org-mode file that is wrapping a Ruby code snippet and providing nice color formatting, which looks kind of like this:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{listings}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \lstloadlanguages{Ruby}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \lstset{%
#+LATEX_HEADER: basicstyle=\ttfamily\color{black},
#+LATEX_HEADER: commentstyle = \ttfamily\color{red},
#+LATEX_HEADER: keywordstyle=\ttfamily\color{blue},
#+LATEX_HEADER: stringstyle=\color{orange}}

\begin{lstlisting}[language=Ruby]
pairs_list.each {|pair|
    if (pair[0]-pair[1]).magnitude < min_dist
        min_dist = (pair[0]-pair[1]).magnitude
        best_pair = pair
    end
  }
\end{lstlisting}

All of this works fine except for the square brackets in the array addressing, which are erroneously identified as org footnotes. I tried setting autofn:nil in options, tried adding #+STARTUP: nofninline, noautofn and refreshing, but nothing worked. org-mode tries to export the nonexistent footnotes and makes a bunch of garbage.

What's the easiest way to turn this off on a per-file basis?

edit: The reason why you would bother doing this instead of #+BEGIN_SRC #+END_SRC is because that format is uglier and does not include colors (although that may hint at a way to solve it).

Trevor Alexander

As reported in this mailing list, the way to stop org-mode from trying to parse the LaTeX block is to put #+BEGIN_LATEX #+END_LATEX wrappers around it. This will get you proper (LaTeX) export behavior while ensuring it is interpreted only as LaTeX.

Emacs org mode as a work diary

emacs org-mode

Buzzzz

Is emacs org mode a good choice if you want to maintain a work diary?

I have tried to use it and archive old tasks (TODOs) but is there an easy way see which tasks I worked on for example last week (some task have been timestamped more than one day) ?

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rayners

To see what I have done by day (there is probably a way to limit it to a particular period of time, but putting that together is a low priority for me), here is what I do. Start with C-c a that brings up the orgmode agenda menu, then L to display the timeline for the current file and finally l to turn log mode on.

That gives me output that looks like this:

...
Wednesday   9 March 2011
Clocked:   (7:21) One of my tasks
Clocked:   (0:07) Another of my tasks
...

Given that this is in emacs, there is probably a way to make this simpler/quicker to use, but this is what I do at the moment.

Nikana Reklawyks

I personally have a binding to insert a now timestamp, and scatter them over the tasks I work on while I do so. Then, I can see what I've been doing in the agenda (C-a a a), looking at past days.
^{Maybe rayners' idea of the timeline is better, I just never used it.}
It has the advantage you can put multiple temistamps for some tasks, without depending on state changes (which I personaly don't log).

It goes :

;; Insert immediate active timestamp
(define-key global-map (kbd "<f9>")
'(lambda () (interactive)
   (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
     (org-insert-time-stamp nil t nil)
     ;; (insert "\n")
     )))

And may requiere org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done to be nil.

Rémi

I've never tried it yet, but org-mode can be used to clock your working times. See : http://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-work-time.html

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