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<div class="transcript transcript-mainVideo"><a name="writing-mainVideo-transcript"></a><h1>Transcript</h1>
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Introduction""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Hi, I'm Peter Prevos, and I'll be talking about Emacs""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Writing Studio. I'm a water engineer, a social scientist,""" start="00:00:02.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I dabble in theatrical magic. For each of those""" start="00:00:06.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""endeavors, I do a lot of writing. I take notes, I write""" start="00:00:08.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""reports, articles, books, and websites. I use Emacs for all""" start="00:00:11.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""my research, my writing, and my publishing. Emacs Writing""" start="00:00:14.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Studio is an opinionated starter kit for authors who write""" start="00:00:18.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for humans, not for programmers who write for computers.""" start="00:00:21.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It consists of a configuration, some bespoke""" start="00:00:24.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""functions, but are not yet a package, a website, and a book.""" start="00:00:26.880" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The book is completely written with EWS itself. The target""" start="00:00:31.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""audience are authors who are frustrated with using""" start="00:00:36.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""commercial software and hopping from application to""" start="00:00:39.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""application to achieve an objective. These are people""" start="00:00:41.240" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""without any Emacs experience or coding skills.""" start="00:00:45.880" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The objective is to teach these people how to use Emacs,""" start="00:00:49.987" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""not how to configure Emacs to manage a complete writing project.""" start="00:00:53.308" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Why?""" start="00:00:57.649" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""So why did I write a book about Emacs when the documentation is""" start="00:00:57.649" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""already so extensive? Most Emacs documentation focuses on""" start="00:01:00.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""configuration, burying potential new users with choices.""" start="00:01:04.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It forces people to work on Emacs instead of with Emacs,""" start="00:01:08.840" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and it quickly can become a productivity sink. Emacs is the""" start="00:01:13.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""ultimate free software platform, but with this freedom""" start="00:01:18.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""also comes a price. Barry Schwartz wrote about the""" start="00:01:21.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""paradox of choice, which is about the dramatic explosion in""" start="00:01:25.880" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""choices in the modern world. Just think about the amount of""" start="00:01:29.240" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""effort it can take to decide what cereal to buy in a""" start="00:01:32.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""supermarket that you haven't been before. So many""" start="00:01:34.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""different choices. Paradoxically, that's become a""" start="00:01:37.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""problem instead of a solution. Emacs can perhaps suffer""" start="00:01:40.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""from the same issue. Another objective, using a COVID-19""" start="00:01:44.240" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""trope: EWS is about flattening the curve--that is, the""" start="00:01:49.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""learning curve--by making these choices""" start="00:01:54.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for the new Emacs user and avoiding the paradox.""" start="00:01:56.728" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""EWS configuration""" start="00:02:02.452" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""What about this EWS configuration?""" start="00:02:02.452" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I decided to stay as close as humanly""" start="00:02:05.594" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""bearable to vanilla Emacs. I say that tongue-in-cheek,""" start="00:02:07.840" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but also with some realism, centered around Org mode""" start="00:02:11.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and Denote for note tagging, and citar for accessing""" start="00:02:16.027" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""bibliographies, and other convenience packages such as""" start="00:02:18.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""vertico for minibuffer completion. There's a""" start="00:02:21.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""dictionary, a thesaurus, and some other packages that are of""" start="00:02:24.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""interest to authors. EWS uses the standard keyboard""" start="00:02:28.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""shortcuts. Writing is much more about thinking than about""" start="00:02:32.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""maximizing the amount of words per minute. Just think""" start="00:02:37.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about that the most used function for authors is""" start="00:02:40.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""self-insert. There's no need to use fancy keyboard""" start="00:02:43.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""shortcut systems when you write prose.""" start="00:02:46.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""How did I develop EWS?""" start="00:02:50.072" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""How did I go about developing Emacs? I declared Emacs bankruptcy,""" start="00:02:50.072" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""like we all have every now and then.""" start="00:02:54.535" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I decided to write this book with""" start="00:02:57.097" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""vanilla Emacs and only configure the system as was""" start="00:02:58.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""required. The first thing I did, I hooked visual-line-mode""" start="00:03:02.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to text-mode and off I went. The configuration grew as the""" start="00:03:04.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""need arose. I was actually surprised with how far you can""" start="00:03:09.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""get with just using Vanilla Emacs. I also developed two""" start="00:03:13.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""packages to enhance how I can use Denote.""" start="00:03:17.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Overall workflow""" start="00:03:21.954" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Well, let's get to a demo.""" start="00:03:21.954" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""EWS is based on a typical research and writing workflow.""" start="00:03:25.376" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""First step is you need to get some inspiration.""" start="00:03:30.158" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Usually we do that by reading, by watching, by""" start="00:03:32.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""listening. Then the next step is ideation. You develop your""" start="00:03:35.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""ideas, summarize ideas from other people, write down your""" start="00:03:39.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""own ideas. For that, you need a note-taking system. EWS""" start="00:03:42.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""also talks about managing bibliographies. The third step""" start="00:03:46.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is production. This is the actual writing process where, in""" start="00:03:50.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this case, the EWS book. Once that is finished, we""" start="00:03:53.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""convert this Org mode file into something that can be""" start="00:03:57.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""published. That might be an e-book in an EPUB format, or a""" start="00:04:00.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""PDF for the interior of a a paperback book or perhaps as an""" start="00:04:04.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""e-book as well. There's also configuration in Emacs to""" start="00:04:08.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""produce MS Word documents if you need to collaborate with""" start="00:04:12.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""other people. Let's jump in to Emacs and walk through this""" start="00:04:16.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""workflow, give you a very quick demonstration of what's in""" start="00:04:22.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the box.""" start="00:04:25.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Inspiration""" start="00:04:29.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""So the first step in the EWS workflow is inspiration. We all""" start="00:04:29.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""stand on the shoulders of each other. Some giants; most of""" start="00:04:32.880" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""them are normal people. We get inspiration by reading,""" start="00:04:35.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""listening, and watching, and Emacs can help you access""" start="00:04:38.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""text, sound, and video. It depends on external software.""" start="00:04:40.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Emacs acts as a beautiful interface, and EWS helps you""" start="00:04:44.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""with the configuration. But we also need a tool to manage our""" start="00:04:47.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""electronic library, and BibTeX""" start="00:04:50.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and citar package by Bruce D'Arcus""" start="00:04:53.632" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""provides a perfect interface to manage this""" start="00:04:56.055" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""literature. If I open my bibliography here, you see that""" start="00:04:58.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I've got 1864 references in my BibTeX files. There's a""" start="00:05:02.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""whole bunch of stuff about, I guess, the weird things that I""" start="00:05:06.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""read. Let's look for Emacs, right, because that's a joint""" start="00:05:12.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""interest that we have. Let's open here this paper by""" start="00:05:14.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Marcus Birkenkrahe, who did some research using Emacs to teach""" start="00:05:18.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""data science. Data science is my day job, so that had my""" start="00:05:23.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""interest. We have here a Denote file, which I'll talk""" start="00:05:26.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about in a second. There's a library file, which is a PDF, but""" start="00:05:29.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it could be a whole collection of different files in""" start="00:05:33.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""different formats, even video or sound. We can create a new""" start="00:05:35.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Denote file, or there's a link to the document object""" start="00:05:39.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""identifier. Let's go to the PDF. Here we can now do our""" start="00:05:42.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""reading. We can get our inspiration by what Marcus has""" start="00:05:46.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""written here about teaching data science with literary""" start="00:05:50.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""programming tools.""" start="00:05:52.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Ideation""" start="00:05:54.761" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Next step is ideation. Taking notes is""" start="00:05:54.761" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the core of all creativity. When I read that paper, I might""" start="00:05:57.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""want to copy some ideas, I might get some of my own ideas, and I""" start="00:06:01.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""need to write that down. I basically write everything in a""" start="00:06:05.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""paper notebook, but then I transfer the things that are""" start="00:06:07.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""worth keeping to the Denote note-taking system. Now, there""" start="00:06:10.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""are many systems that exist out there that promise you""" start="00:06:14.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""note-taking heaven when you just follow a certain process.""" start="00:06:17.520" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""My advice: don't worry about Zettelkasten, PARA, or""" start="00:06:20.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""whatever is out there. Just write your notes and worry about""" start="00:06:24.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""structure and all that later. Even Niklas Luhmann, the""" start="00:06:28.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""inventor of Zettelkasten, called his system a septic tank""" start="00:06:31.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of ideas. I call my collection of notes a primordial soup""" start="00:06:34.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""from which my books emerge. Now, Denote by Prot Stavrou is a""" start="00:06:38.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""flexible note-taking system that can implement any of the""" start="00:06:43.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""popular methods. I transferred thousands of files to""" start="00:06:45.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this format, so all my information is at my fingertips. We""" start="00:06:49.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""can jump to the Denote directory. In my case, that's""" start="00:06:54.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""~/documents/notes. We see here the marvel that is Denote,""" start="00:06:59.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which is its ingenious file naming convention that has a""" start="00:07:04.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""timestamp, a title, and some (what do we call them) tags or""" start="00:07:09.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""categories, whatever you please. This is a very quick way""" start="00:07:15.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to find things. Then there is an ews-dired-narrow function.""" start="00:07:18.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For example, I can find anything,""" start="00:07:28.764" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""_ews means anything that has the EWS tag, and""" start="00:07:30.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there we go, it's narrowed down in my EWS notes.""" start="00:07:34.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""denote-explore""" start="00:07:39.113" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Now, this is all very well, but I also decided to""" start="00:07:39.113" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""write a package called denote-explore,""" start="00:07:45.041" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which helps us sort of explore these collections of notes.""" start="00:07:47.103" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""One of the fancy things we can do is""" start="00:07:54.072" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""do some visualization.""" start="00:07:55.520" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's go to the network function and create a community of""" start="00:07:56.520" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""notes. A community is a collection of notes that match a""" start="00:08:02.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""regular expression, _ews. All the notes here""" start="00:08:05.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that are on this list, the ones with the EWS tag. In a second,""" start="00:08:10.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""my browser pops up. I shall move that to my other window in a""" start="00:08:15.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""second. There we go. denote-explore creates a SVG file and""" start="00:08:22.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it creates an arrow between all the nodes that are linked.""" start="00:08:28.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It puts a title up there when the node has more than two links""" start="00:08:33.214" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""going in or out. We can also click on the note to read it in""" start="00:08:36.200" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the browser, if you choose. If you set up Firefox properly,""" start="00:08:39.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm sure it can also go into Emacs. This is the note tagging""" start="00:08:43.680" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that's available within EWS.""" start="00:08:49.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Writing with Org""" start="00:08:54.581" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Now, we've taken all these notes. Now we need to""" start="00:08:54.581" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""start writing stuff. Org mode, for me,""" start="00:08:57.022" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is the ideal tool. Org mode is what you see is what you""" start="00:09:00.519" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""mean. The text and the syntax instruct the computer on how to""" start="00:09:03.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""produce the final result. This means that one file can""" start="00:09:06.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""become many different formats, an e-book, a printed book,""" start="00:09:10.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or a website. It doesn't matter. Now, a lot of people talk""" start="00:09:12.880" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about what you see, what you get, and that we should have a""" start="00:09:16.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what you see, what you get mode in Emacs. I think that's""" start="00:09:18.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""irrelevant, because showing the final result while you're""" start="00:09:21.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""writing is actually a distraction. Traditional writing,""" start="00:09:24.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""producing the content, and designing the layout and""" start="00:09:28.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""typesetting are separate processes done by different""" start="00:09:31.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""professionals. In Emacs Writing Studio, the writing is""" start="00:09:34.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""still done by a human. There are no provisions for large""" start="00:09:38.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""language models in EWS. But layout and typesetting is done""" start="00:09:40.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by external software, be it CSS, LaTeX, or XML, all mediated""" start="00:09:45.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by Org mode.""" start="00:09:49.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""EWS also has some other tools for case conversion,""" start="00:09:50.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""thesaurus, a dictionary that I haven't got time to show,""" start="00:09:57.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but what I will show you is how the book functions,""" start="00:09:59.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then how we create these publications.""" start="00:10:02.910" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""The project file""" start="00:10:05.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Okay. Let's go to my project file.""" start="00:10:05.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So these are the EWS chapters,""" start="00:10:11.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and each chapter is an Org mode file.""" start="00:10:17.059" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let's go into the main document, which is set up with""" start="00:10:20.201" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""olivetti-mode just to make it easier to read. What we see""" start="00:10:25.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here is all the fluff from Org mode. These are all the""" start="00:10:30.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""various bits of metadata that I used to create the final""" start="00:10:34.840" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""result. Then for each chapter, I have an inclusion.""" start="00:10:37.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This references another file. I've got some properties.""" start="00:10:43.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In this case, the forward is unnumbered. There's some notes.""" start="00:10:46.722" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In this case, Prot actually wrote this for me. Then we""" start="00:10:49.840" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""can jump into that text. Then what we see at the bottom""" start="00:10:53.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here is some inclusions for HTML. This is the EPUB version,""" start="00:10:59.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but it's different in LaTeX. Again, the same file can""" start="00:11:02.920" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""serve different purposes.""" start="00:11:07.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So now let's, as the final part of this demonstration,""" start="00:11:09.480" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""actually create the book, because the book's freely""" start="00:11:14.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""available. You can download the source files from GitHub,""" start="00:11:17.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and you can roll your own. Let's open the dispatcher.""" start="00:11:23.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We'll export the LaTeX and we want to open the file.""" start="00:11:29.840" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now this takes a minute because there's a lot happening within""" start="00:11:33.469" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""all this code, so I'll shorten this video. I'll be silent now.""" start="00:11:37.350" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There we are. This is the Emacs Writing Studio PDF version,""" start="00:11:42.200" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which will eventually become the interior for the""" start="00:11:49.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""paperback version.""" start="00:11:53.440" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So the EWS book is available in all major e-book shops.""" start="00:11:55.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm also working on a paperback, which I hope to finish when""" start="00:12:02.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Emacs 30 comes out. But the Org Mode files that I use to""" start="00:12:05.320" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""produce the book, they're available in the GitHub""" start="00:12:09.280" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""repository, so you can also roll your own, because the EWS""" start="00:12:11.040" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""configuration is the one that I use to produce the book.""" start="00:12:14.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Conclusions""" start="00:12:18.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Now, some conclusions from this journey is that the best way to""" start="00:12:18.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""learn is to teach. That was my personal objective. I""" start="00:12:22.800" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""learned a lot from systematically working out how to""" start="00:12:26.240" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""implement the EWS workflow. One of the surprising things""" start="00:12:28.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I learned is to have reliance on external software""" start="00:12:33.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""throughout the writing process. I spent a lot of time in""" start="00:12:35.760" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the book about explaining these connections that Emacs is""" start="00:12:39.360" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""not just a text processor, it is also an interface with other""" start="00:12:42.160" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""software. Now, future developments, as I mentioned,""" start="00:12:46.400" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there'll be a paperback version of the book when Emacs 30""" start="00:12:49.600" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""comes out, and I might reconfigure things a little bit. I'm""" start="00:12:52.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""only planning to update the configuration when packages""" start="00:12:55.960" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""break or with another major Emacs release, because I want to""" start="00:12:58.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""work with Emacs, not work on Emacs. A big thank you to""" start="00:13:04.640" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Prot Stavrou, who helped me with Denote packages, and he""" start="00:13:08.080" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""also wrote the forward to the book. There's also several""" start="00:13:11.200" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""test readers that I met through Mastodon that helped me out""" start="00:13:15.000" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""quite a bit. Of course, all the Emacs and package""" start="00:13:18.120" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""developers without which none of this would exist. Thank""" start="00:13:20.720" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you all for your attention, and I look forward to your""" start="00:13:25.520" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""questions and suggestions.""" start="00:13:27.560" video="mainVideo-writing" id="subtitle"]]
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