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Table of Contents
1 Intro
This is a short introduction to what Org mode can do.
2 Outlines
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 rearranging headings
Try moving sections around
2.3 Promotion / demotion M-S-arrow
Levels of headings can be dynamically altered. Affects all subtrees, e.g. this one.
2.3.1 Example of third-level heading
2.4 navigating headings
C-c C-n
next headingC-c C-f
next heading, same levelC-c C-u
up a level
3 Formatting
3.1 Recognises simple formats
e.g. bold text italics underscore some verbatim text
and some code
.
α + β = γ
3.2 Math formatting recognised upon export
Even in html, using nice math support
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma^2}}e^{ -\frac{(x-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2} }$$
4 Lists
Org mode handles unorderd lists, such as:
- apples
- oranges
- bananas
and ordered lists such as:
- oranges
- apples
- bananas
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 |
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 | 0.7 |
total | 1.7 |
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.