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Writing academic papers in Org-Roam

Vincent Conus (he/him) - Pronunciation: vɪnsᵊnt koʊnᵊs, IRC: sunoc, Mastodon: @sunoc@social.linux.pizza, vincent.conus@pm.me

Format: 10-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room
Status: Waiting for video from speaker

Description

Org-mode and more so org-roam are making for a fantastic note-taking system inside Emacs. Combining the note-taking of org-mode, the capability to export a note to LaTeX and PDF directly, the spectacular org-roam-bibtex package and the flexibility of the elisp configuration of Emacs, it become possible to use a org-roam note as the main document for write academic papers, even when exotic templates are provided.

In this presentation, I want to talk about the way I am using org-roam to write LaTeX documents, the benefits of it but also the various pitfalls and difficulties encountered in this journey.

The key benefits being:

The integration with other org-roam notes.
Bibliography integration and links directly to PDF.
Org-mode literate programming capabilities.
Direct export to PDF.

The main challenges are:

Dealing with strangely formatted LaTeX templates.
Related, having to use other LaTeX compilers.
These two points can make citation of references, in particular, challenging.

About the speaker:

A PhD student in robotics at Nanzan University, Japan. I have been using Linux for around 10 years at that point, eventually moving many of my work and personal stuff to Emacs over the years, including academic writing.