ModE-Optional-Packages-y-Customization.md

file	author	created	updated	tags
ModE-Optional-Packages-y-Customization.md	Alisha Awen	2019-010-30	2019-011-14	Emacs, Xah-Fly-Keys, apps-tools, SysAdmin, HA-ModEmacs, how-to, README

Modular Emacs Optional Packages & Features

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New (changed/replaced) Tools for Writers:

Update 2020: It looks like fountain-mode is ditching its built in export features... (and I don't blame them after digging deep into all that TeX LaTeX stuff %^). They say there are plenty of conversion tools out there already... Wat? Where? I don't see a sea of fountain to PDF utilities out there for Emacs!

OK, Well I just found:

Github:ifrost/afterwriting-labs/CLI Tool

That looks like a good place to start... I can interface Emacs with his Node.js tool: afterwriting

Install it globally on your machine (assuming you already have Node.js npm installed):

   npm install afterwriting -g
   afterwriting --help

More instructions on how to use it to export your screenplays to PDF files will be fourthcoming... Now I am adjusting my radio theater project templates to use Afterwriting now instead of "wandering through twisty little LaTeX passages all alike"...

Steel Bank Common Lisp:

Moved to it's own file... Finish introducing here...

CIDER & Clojure:

Moved to it's own file... Finish introducing here...

Optional Accounting Features Module:

I am currently experimenting with this. My initial research suggests installing hledger and use hledger-mode as my Emacs front end to it. I created the document: Modular Emacs Accounting Module Install Guide to record my progress and eventually function as the How-To install guide for the new module: 15-Accounting-pkg-conf.el Once I get my org-mode skills up to speed this will be a great extension for doing my accounting in org-mode as well!

Accounting Module Refs:

• https://plaintextaccounting.org/ - A website dedicated to plain text accounting...
• https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode - hledger-mode Github Repository...
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566147 - Hacker News Thread on the subject...
• https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode - hledger-mode Emacs mode for hledger app...

Strategies for Concurrent Development:

Harmonic Alchemy Modular Emacs Version 1.0.2 and beyond contain some modules that are not loaded by default. These modules are ones that you will most likely need to customize on your own as well if you choose to use them... The following Scheme lays out a nice way to have different test versions of your own Modular Emacs running along side the stock Modular Emacs current HEAD at origin master... Doing it in the following manner will make it easy to decide what to merge from origin master, if needed, and when... And it will be easy to do... You will be free to experiment as much as you like and have a few safety nets just in case...

TODO: Insert git branch scheme svg diagram here...

To be continued...