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+[[!meta title="Org-mode and FoilTeX - an unlikely (but useful) combination for teaching - Tom Faulkenberry"]]
+
+- Hi my name is Tom Faulkenberry and I am a mathematical psychologist
+  and professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
+  My talk is about using something that's kind of old, a lot of people
+  don't think about it any more, with something new, like Emacs
+  Org-mode.  Particularly I'm going to talk about using FoilTeX in
+  Emacs Org-mode.  So first I want to give you a little bit of
+  background about what this is and why you would want to do it.  As
+  you can see I have some things available for you on a GitHub repo.
+  The address you can see up here, is
+  <https://github.com/tomfaulkenberry/orgFoils> with the F
+  capitalized.  So if you go there you'll see this README and it kind
+  of tells the story, I've been using Emacs for a long time and even
+  before that I was using LaTex in my graduate studies in mathematics.
+
+- Now with the advent of Org-mode many of us know that we are able to
+  combine the efficiency of using an Emacs workflow, and particularly
+  the markdown language that's provided by Org-mode, with the
+  mathematical type setting power of LaTeX, and so there are standard
+  ways to export Org-mode into LaTeX-type documents.  Particularly
+  this works for presentations, and of course I'm a professor so I
+  make a lot of presentations, both at conferences as well as for
+  classes that I teach.  Now I found that Org-mode did this very
+  nicely, as long as you were willing to use the ?Beamer? class, so if
+  I wanted to make things that were horizontally oriented and use the
+  standard color schemes in ?Beamer? then Org-mode export works fine
+  for that.  But I have to admit I longed for simplicity of old days
+  of using LaTeX, where we made slides for - okay I'm going to date
+  myself here - but we made slides for overhead projectors that were
+  in a portrait orientation, and they just didn't have a lot of
+  decoration on them.
+
+- They kind of got to the point, they showed some mathematics, they
+  showed some things, and that was about it.
+
+- Well those were made back in those days using something called the
+  FoilTeX package, I've provided a link here on this README.  You can
+  see if we go to the package for FoilTeX it hasn't been updated since
+  2008, and even before that it went six years between updates.  This
+  is not by any means an active development package.  Rather it is
+  something that is old, it is archival but it is still distributed
+  with the full installation of LaTeX.  So back to the point, why do
+  we care about this?  Well, it's a pretty simple way of making
+  presentations, but Org-mode won't do it without a little bit of
+  hacking.  So the point of this presentation is to show you that it
+  can be done, to show you that you can actually make very nice
+  presentations for both conferences as well as teaching notes, and
+  teaching slides, with just a little bit of work on your .emacs file.
+  So before I show you how that works, and it's all documented here on
+  the GitHub repo, I want to just demonstrate it in action, so I'm
+  going to flop over to Emacs real quick.  Here is a document, there
+  is a copy of this document in the GitHub repository that I mentioned
+  about, so as you can see it does seem to follow the structure of a
+  standard Org-mode document.
+
+- At the top we have some header matter that I will explain in just a
+  second, and then we have these lists that begin with asterisks, and
+  if we tab them you can see that there's text underneath these.
+  These sections, if you will, will each turn into separate pages on
+  my lectures notes.  So I've got several, this is for about a two
+  hour long course, so how does it turn into a pretty document that I
+  can then take to my course with me?
+
+- Well it works just like any standard Org-mode to LaTeX export.  We
+  type C-c C-e which then provides us with this export menu, and as we
+  can see here to export to LaTeX and then a resulting PDF file I can
+  type l and then o and I do that and it will generate my LaTeX file
+  as well as open it for me and we'll see that pop up.  Okay.  And let
+  me go to the very beginning.  This is what it looks like.  Let me
+  scroll or zoomout a little bit so you can see the full page.  So
+  these are in portrait orientation, I use my lecture like this
+  because usually I'm giving a lecture on an, not an overhead, but a
+  document camera where I'll take the paper with me and I'll have some
+  things written but I'll also have some space to write additional
+  things throughout the class.  So sort of a hybrid between a chalk
+  talk if you will and a formal presentation.
+
+- And so as you can see this is nicely done with some readable fonts,
+  using LaTeX type type-setting, so it's really good for mathematical
+  content, and I found it's just a really clean way of doing things.
+  So that's what it looks like.  So the question is how do you do
+  this, how do you generate this and get your Org-mode and Emacs set
+  up to work this way.  Well I detail this in the GitHub repository.
+  There are two things you need to do to make this work. First is you
+  need to edit your .emacs file to include this codeblock.  So this
+  codeblock is, I'll show you on my .emacs file, it doens't really
+  matter where it goes, I usually put it somewhere in the middle.  Let
+  me open that just real quick for you.
+
+- My .emacs file's got some stuff in it and if we go down to about
+  right here you can see that code chunk is right here.  So that code
+  chunk is what it takes to make that exporting that I demonstrated
+  work.  You can see it here it basically does two things.  First is
+  it defines a Foils class, that you can call in the Org document, and
+  then it maps your section header, that asterisk, to the FoilTeX
+  command which is Foil head.  So if you type all of this in your
+  .emacs and then reload that you will be able to then turn the
+  example Org mode document into a nice set of lecture notes.  The
+  other thing that you need to include, is you need to include a
+  document header.
+
+- Now this is kind of a barebones header, I will say that strictly
+  speaking, not everyone of these things is required, for example, you
+  do not need this `\usepackage{amsmath}`, unless you are using some
+  fonts or things that are in that package.
+
+- Another thing is this little bit of LaTeX command, this makes it to
+  where my paragraphs don't indent, which for presentations and
+  lecture slides I prefer.  There are also some class options, I do
+  mine portrait, but if I'm giving a presentation at a conference
+  those are usually done via computer projector, so I would turn that
+  into landscape.  And also this 17-point font you see, that's the
+  size that works nicely for me, but there are other font sizes
+  available in FoilTeX that you can use.  All of those are detailed in
+  the FoilTeX manual which I've provided a link to for you here.
+
+- Finally, in this repository I do give you the Org-mode file itself,
+  it doesn't render nicely in the browser but you can clone this
+  repository and pull it up in your Emacs just fine, and then finally
+  the resulting PDF I showed you is also living in this GitHub repo.
+  So, it's a little bit slow right now, but it's there.  I'm moving it
+  around too much as you can see.  But anyway there is, so if you
+  think this is interesting and something you might like to do I
+  certainly welcome you to contact me by or by Twitter, there's my
+  email address and my Twitter handle.  This I think is a really cool
+  thing and I hope that you do too.  If you want old-school type LaTeX
+  ability with new-school Emacs Org-mode this is the way to do it.  So
+  hope you enjoyed it and I look forward to talking with you further.