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Author: Stephen Eglen
Date: 2011-08-12 21:21:23 BST


Table of Contents
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1 Intro 
2 Outlines 
    2.1 Hiding with repeated TAB or S-TAB 
    2.2 Promotion / demotion  =M-S-arrow= 
        2.2.1 Example of third-level heading 
    2.3 rearranging headings 
    2.4 navigating headings 
3 Formatting 
    3.1 Recognises simple formats 
    3.2 Math formatting recognised upon export 
4 Lists 
5 Tables and spreadsheets 


1 Intro 
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  This is a short introduction to what Org mode can do.


2 Outlines 
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2.1 Hiding with repeated TAB or S-TAB 
======================================

   TAB on a heading will toggle its visibily;
   three dots (ellipsis) denotes material is hidden
   shift works the whole document

2.2 Promotion / demotion  =M-S-arrow= 
======================================

   Levels of headings can be dynamically altered.  Affects all
   subtrees,  e.g. this one.

2.2.1 Example of third-level heading 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2.3 rearranging headings 
=========================

   Try moving sections around

2.4 navigating headings 
========================
   - =C-c C-n= next heading
   - =C-c C-f= next heading, same level
   - =C-c C-u= up a level

3 Formatting 
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3.1 Recognises simple formats 
==============================

   e.g.  *bold text* /italics/ _underscore_ ~some verbatim text~ and =some
   code=.

3.2 Math formatting recognised upon export 
===========================================

   Even in html, using nice math support

   $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2pisigma^2}}e^{ -\frac{(x-mu)^2}{2sigma^2} }$$


4 Lists 
--------

  Org mode handles unorderd lists, such as:

  - apples
  - oranges
  - bananas

  and ordered lists such as:

  1. apples
  2. bananas
  3. oranges

  In both cases, you can rearrange the list order using M-S-up/down.
  You can add new items with M-RET, or when you kill items, hit =C-c
  C-c= to reformat lists.

5 Tables and spreadsheets 
--------------------------

  Org mode has nice support for editing tables.  e.g. let's make a
  price list from the above data.  We'll recreate the following table
  dynamically so that you can see how it is built up.

    item      weight (kg)  
    apples            0.7  
    bananas           0.3  
    oranges           0.2  

  Even better, we can even get org mode to add up the weights and add
  some nice horizontal separators.

    item      weight (kg)  
   ---------+-------------
    apples            0.7  
    bananas           0.3  
    oranges           0.2  
   ---------+-------------
    total             1.2  

  If you change the values in the table, hit =C-u C-c C-c= in the
  table to recalculate.  To help with table calculations, you might
  wish to label col/rows:
  


  (org-table-toggle-coordinate-overlays)



  
  These overlays are temporary.
  

 * Export
   We can export the org file into several formats, such as pdf (via
   latex), html, or ASCII.
