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AUGUST 2021
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Roaming around
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TEC
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2021-08-38
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Dear readers, unfortunately I’ve been unusually busy as of
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late, and will continue to be for a bit over a month. As
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such, it’s entirely likely that the next post or two may +be
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late+ make use of creative dates too.
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In terms of Org development, we’ve had a fairly slow month — mostly
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tweaks and fixes, concentrated on the new org-cite functionality.
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However, there have been big developments with Roam as of late.
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[Org-roam v2]
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Pushed to the sidelines by last month’s hugely significant citations
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announcement was the release of Org-roam v2 🎉. The project’s author
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Jethro wrote a nice [blog post] outlining the major changes and
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motivations, and so I’ll leave him to speak on that. Suffice to say,
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the idea of org-roam has been refined into a form that should better
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server tinkerers looking to build off Org roam, and make maintenance
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easier — thus improving the user experience in the long term 🙂.
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Should you be worried that the v1 -> v2 upgrade will be painful, read
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[Org-roam v2 doesn’t hurt], relax, and try the upgrade wizard.
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[Org-roam v2] <https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam>
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[blog post] <https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/org_roam_v2/>
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[Org-roam v2 doesn’t hurt]
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<https://macowners.club/posts/org-roam-v2-doesnt-hurt/>
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[Org-roam-ui]
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Within a month of Roam v2’s announcement, we were pleasantly surprised
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by the release of [org-roam-server] usurper — org-roam-ui.
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<file:figures/org-roam-graph-2d-overview.png>
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While org-roam-server remains incompatible with Roam v2, org-roam-ui
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is built around v2 from the ground up. With this shift comes a much
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more ambitious set of features. The graph view itself is now based on
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[react-force-graph], which allows for both 2D and 3D views of the
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graph, with WebGL acceleration.
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Using [emacs-websocket], org-roam-ui establishes a two-way connection
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between Emacs and the Web visualisation. This allows for nifty
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features like syncing the graph view and the currently open roam file
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in Emacs. Furthermore, with `xwidget-webkit' you can even embed
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org-roam-ui /inside/ Emacs![1]
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<file:figures/org-roam-ui-in-emacs.png>
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Beyond this, org-roam-ui also provides a number of other nice
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features, such as filtering and theme syncing, with more in the works.
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To see more, check out the `README' published on GitHub.
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//github.com/org-roam/org-roam-ui/
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[Org-roam-ui] <https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-ui/>
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[org-roam-server] <https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server>
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[react-force-graph] <https://github.com/vasturiano/react-force-graph>
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[emacs-websocket] <https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-websocket>
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New ConTeXt exporter
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We’ve long been able to export to LaTeX files with `ox-latex', but now
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you can export to ConTeXt too with [ox-context]! While only just
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released, a lot of work has already gone into this — with development
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starting almost a year ago by the commit history.
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//github.com/Jason-S-Ross/ox-context
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It’s always nice to see more export options for Org, and I wish Jason
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all the best in developing `ox-context'.
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[ox-context] <https://github.com/Jason-S-Ross/ox-context>
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Other improvements
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⁃ Refactor `oc-natbib.el', `oc-biblatex', `oc-basic.el',
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`org-compat.el' to improve byte compilation _Maxim Nikulin_ _Nicolas
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Goaziou_ _Marco Wahl_
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⁃ Allow for selecting cite style with a citation argument _Nicolas
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Goaziou_
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⁃ Add support for Italian “smart quotes” _DPDmancul_
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⁃ Fix Spanish mistranslation in footnote Documentation _Juan Manuel
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Macias_
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⁃ Define `\citeprocitem' in `oc-csl.el' for use by `citeproc-el' _TEC_
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⁃ Fix error in `org-export-define-backend' docstring _Zachary Kanfer_
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_Nicolas Goaziou_
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⁃ Document the `:results none' option _Yasushi Shoji_
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⁃ Other documentation improvements: _Jorge Neto_ _Marco Wahl_
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Bugfixes
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⁃ When tangling a certain language, be more careful about which blocks
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are matched _DMG, Nicolas Goaziou_
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⁃ Make `q' in `org-agenda' work even when `debug-on-error' is set
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_Lars Ingebrigtsen_
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⁃ Make `org-attach' work again for Emacs < 28 _Kyle Meyer, Marco Wahl_
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⁃ Make `rx' usage in `org-cite' files compatible with Emacs < 27.1
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_Max Nikulin_
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⁃ Prevent `'' from becoming a LaTeX active char in exports using
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`oc-csl' _TEC_
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⁃ Have `org-colview' dynblock `match' and `mixlevel' interact sensibly
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_Nick Dokos_
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⁃ Behave appropriately when `ffap-url-regexp' is `nil', instead of
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throwing an error _Peder Stray_ _TEC_
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Footnotes
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─────────
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[1] I have found the `xwidget-webkit' experience quite unstable until
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I started using Emacs 28 with the pure-GTK branch. So, if you’re not
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getting a good experience now, there’s a good chance you’ll have a
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better experience in the future.
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