More Productive With Emacs

More Productive with Emacs is a series of articles on how content creators can use Emacs to research, write and publish articles, websites and books.

The init.el file contains the configuration code described in these articles.

Instructions

Install Emacs and Decencies

This Emacs configuration requires two other software packages to function properly. For spellchecking you will need the Hunspell package and to use the Org-Roam note taking software you need the GCC compiler.

• Linux: install Emacs and supporting software with your favourite package manager.
• Chromebook
• Windows

Download init file

Download the init.el file and place it in your configuration folder.

You can find out where your configuration folder lives by starting Emacs and typing C-h v for help on variables (Control h, followed by v), followed by user-emacs-directory and ENTER.

The help buffer that now appears provides the correct folder name. You can close this buffer by pressing q.

Update folder configuration

This init file defines directories:

• ~/Documents/org-roam: Notes taken with Org-Roam
• ~/Documents/bibliography: BibTeX files with your BibTeX bibliographies
• ~/Documents/pdf: Bibliography attachments

You can change these settings in the init file.

Select Fonts

The init file defines two fonts. You will need to adjust the font names to those available on your system. The default setting uses Dejavus Sans.