[OS X TeX] outlining and TeX

[Mark Guzdial]

I use OmniOutliner for my major LaTeX writing now.  I tried the emacs 
outlining mode, but found that it was too rigid in its definition of 
what was the hierarchy of my document.  I sometimes want structure (say, 
within a section of text, to reflect the argument I'm making) that 
doesn't map onto sections or environments.

I write in OmniOutliner using the outline hierarchy to be anything I 
want.  Sometimes I just put a %comment in an outline to represent 
something I'm going to put in that section, or sometimes \section 
titles.  Text I often put in the notes area of the outline.

I've written an AppleScript to walk the outline and flatten into a long 
text and dump it into BBEdit.  I use BBEdit to make all newlines into 
returns, then I have another AppleScript for dumping the whole BBedit 
document into TeXshop.  Downsides to this process is that it's only one 
way: If I make changes in BBEdit or TeXshop, they don't copy back to the 
OmniOutliner version.  So far, that's worked okay for my process -- I 
use outlining mostly in the initial writing, and I don't mind proofing 
and revising in plain LaTeX.

I'd be happy to share my scripts with anyone who wants them.

Mark

On Tuesday, August 6, 2002, at 09:36  AM, Michael Murray wrote:

>> Hi -
>>
>> I've been using Omni's Outliner program lately, and it's a great tool 
>> in the conceptual stages of a project - where you are trying to 
>> organize ideas, references, schedule, assignments, and so forth. (I' m 
>> using it to plan out a new PhD course.) The ability to expand, 
>> collapse, organize into tables -- and all this in WYSIWYG -- is 
>> extremely useful.
>>
>> Is there a similar capability with some LaTeX packages, or some 
>> TeX-oriented tools for OSX? I'm thinking of a LaTeX based coding 
>> scheme, with hyperref or some such Acrobat-oriented package, where the 
>> PDF version can be encoded to have the expand/collapse, hide/show 
>> features?
>>
>> Does anyone know of something related, or a way to link up Outliner 
>> with TeX, somehow. (Ultimately, I will need my data to go into a LaTeX 
>> file so I can do the usual TeX things with it.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Hemant
>>
>
>
> I think I read somewhere that emacs has a facility to do this via
> something called auctex.
>
> I had a quick look at google and
>
> http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/auctex/www/auctex/doc/
>
> seems to say that auctex does outlining.
>
> Michael
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