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+I have the pad open. So, I can start.
+
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+Do you have occasions to use Emacs for
+multilingual text composition?
+
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+How do you deal with spell-checking?
+
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+I have written only in English. For
+English, Emacs works great.
+
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+Spell-check works great.
+
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+I have not used it for any other languages.
+
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+I have indeed tried local South Indian
+language, but only the script
+
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+I could get, but not the spell-checker,
+really. I've not really figured it out.
+
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+So that was my trial to answer
+the first question.
+
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+The second question is: "is it possible
+to align the subcolumns
+
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+and headings and subheadings?"
+
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+Oh boy. That's a good one. I actually
+felt the lack of having the...
+
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+The theme I had was great for... It
+looked like a novel
+
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+when I'm typing on the novel itself,
+
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+but when I expand into the subtrees,
+
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+it sort of goes haywire. It's a bit hacky.
+
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+You can probably switch to a monospace font,
+
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+and that works better than
+
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+the font that I have demoed it.
+
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+You can perhaps try monospace font
+
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+and it should work, I think,
+
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+as far as I know.
+
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+So, that's the second question.
+
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+The third question is maybe there should
+be an Emacs for Writing
+
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+mailing list, an online writer's workshop?
+
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+This is a great one.
+
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+I have conducted an online writer's workshop
+
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+here in India. Of course, it wasn't
+
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+an Emacs-focused workshop. We used
+Notion as the tool. It worked pretty good.
+
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+for people who are not aware of Emacs
+and how to use Emacs, the keystrokes,
+
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+the fact that I wasn't using the mouse
+unnerved them.
+
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+It was a scary experience for most people.
+
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+I had to switch to Notion.
+
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+People used that as a template
+
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+and then they could type it out.
+
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+It wasn't my perfect experience. I liked
+the Emacs Org Mode experience much better.
+
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+The next question is, "How do you share
+drafts of your novel?
+
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+If you use pandoc to export to Word,
+etc., how do you incorporate feedback
+
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+on the document back into Org?"
+
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+Thank you for the kind words.
+
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+Yes, it is a problem.
+
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+This is my ??, and I have a dedication
+to Spacemacs also and the Emacs Org Mode
+
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+community in there. I don't know if you
+can see it.
+
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+Probably not.
+
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+I did export it to Word.
+
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+My editor did complain that there were a
+whole bunch of things,
+
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+that it wasn't convenient for her.
+
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+So I tried having the raw Org Mode
+itself in a DOC embedded,
+
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+and I will do a copy and paste.
+
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+Didn't work so well either.
+
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+So I'm still on the edge on
+how do I do this.
+
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+Should I train my editor
+to use Org Mode
+
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+in Gitlab or one of those
+
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+other tools, which is not a great
+experience?
+
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+But... I don't know. It could be
+tricky for working with people
+
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+who are not well-versed with Emacs.
+
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+Pandoc is very, very useful in
+converting it to PDF
+
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+and integrating it with LaTeX, the
+styling, formatting into e-reader,
+
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+EPUB format. For all that, Pandoc works
+great. You can customize it
+
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+and of course there's a lot of support
+in the community
+
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+for any style changes that you want to
+make, any images that you want to add.
+
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+It works great.
+
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+That was my trial to answer the pandoc question.
+
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+"Can you show exported PDF of
+any of your novels?"
+
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+Unfortunately, it's still
+not published, so I'm...
+
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+I will put it and
+share it on the community,
+
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+or part of this in the schedule itself.
+Thank you for the question.
+
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+Unfortunately, it's not yet published,
+so I'm unable to publish the exported PDF.
+
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+But I'll make a test of an open-source
+novel that I'm working on
+
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+I will definitely publish that so that
+you can see
+
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+how it works also.
+
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+Can you text-wrap in the columns?
+
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+I have not found a way to do
+text-wrap in the columns.
+
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+That only shows my limitation
+in config setup,
+
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+but I'm sure people can figure this out
+
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+That's a good one. I would have loved to
+have it.
+
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+Every time I want to write more on the
+headline,
+
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+I would get out of the column-view mode
+and I would do the typing and expand it,
+
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+and then come back into the column view
+when I want to set the other meta parameters.
+
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+So that's how I manage without the
+text-wrapping feature built into column.
+
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+But I think it's a great idea to
+have text wrap.
+
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+Did I leave out any questions?
+I don't think so.
+
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+[Amin]: I think there's at least one
+question on IRC,
+
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+which I shall read to you.
+
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+[Bala]: Please, can you do that? Thank you.
+
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+[Amin]: So they asked, "How do you collaborate
+with others while writing your novel?
+
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+For example, sharing your file and
+getting feedback."
+
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+Okay. Good question. So far, I have
+used... Let's see...
+
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+What did I use...
+This is a crazy hack.
+
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+But it's a long-winded way of...
+
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+Right now we're working on an e-book for
+sustainability
+
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+and kids contribute their stories into
+this long Org Mode file
+
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+and I want my editors to see it
+
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+so what we have done, actually, is with
+the tags and all that, I have actually
+
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+pasted it into Google Docs
+
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+so that my collaborators and
+
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+editors can see it.
+
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+That's my current solution.
+It's not elegant.
+
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+I'm trying to see if I can use Python
+code to make the copy and paste work,
+
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+but it's not so elegant for now.
+
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+I don't know how to work this out,
+
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+but this is my hack. That is,
+
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+the entire Org Mode text, I would paste
+it into
+
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+Google Docs
+
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+so that my collaborators and editors
+
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+can see it. Whenever they edit it, I ask
+them not to make any changes
+
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+to the Org Mode tags.
+
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+So just copy the entire text
+
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+and put it back into my Org Mode file
+
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+and export it using Pandoc into a PDF
+
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+and since it's synced to Google Drive
+
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+it shows up in the Google Drive
+
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+and then the collaborators can see
+the PDF/EPUB
+
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+if they want to open it up
+
+00:08:05.333 --> 00:08:06.200
+in their own space.
+
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+It's very very hacky and I think
+primitive, Stone Age sort of solution.
+
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+I did see a Python solution.
+
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+to at least help me with
+the copying and paste.
+
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+I'm still working on
+how do I convert this.
+
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+Interconvertability is
+driving me nuts.
+
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+I think most of the questions
+
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+are around interconvertability.
+
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+This is sort of what I have right now.
+
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+Any other questions, Amin,
+
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+on IRC or not?
+
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+[Amin]: Let's see. I think that's about it.
+
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+[Bala]: Okay. Cool. That was fun.
+
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+Thank you so much to
+
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+the organizers of Emacs conference,
+
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+and the community at large,
+
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+the Org Mode community and the Emacs
+community for helping me out.
+
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+Thank you so much.
+
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+Thanks for the opportunity
+as well.
+
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+[Amin]: And thank you, Bala, for your
+awesome talk.
+
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+[Bala]: Thanks. Thanks a lot, Amin.