For creating audio-books I use a text-to-speech engine. One problem is that the application dies on Unicode text. The documents that I encode are too long to correct manually so I want it automated. The correction isn’t as simple as removing all Unicode text though because if possible I don’t want to lose the meaning of the character when it is easily converted to ASCII.
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;; Transliterate ASCII a-z and A-Z to their Unicode mathematical ;; Fraktur equivalent. Eszett and umlaut aren't used because the Unicode ;; specification defines these characters only as a mathematical symbol via ;; `http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html'.
outorg lets you convert source-code buffers temporarily to org-mode for comment editing.
Emacs-wgrep provides writable grep buffer that apply the changes to files.
Intuitive and familiar idea if you already like editable dired buffers.
ag is fast, does what you expect, and works well with Emacs. Maybe it is time for you to switch.
Femto-Emacs is an Emacs clone built on the Scheme dialect femtolisp.
emacs-calfw is a calendar framework for Emacs. It looks beautiful, thoughtful, well thought out, and well-developed. That is from reading its landing page, I never used it. I use Google Calendar, and, this package is still intriguing because every question I could come up with was well answered on that landing page.
Imenu is an under-recognized gem of a package. One way to make it more accessible is to utilize it via a buffer instead of going up to a menu.
imenu-list does just that. It is shockingly powerful because nearly every package has Imenu integration, it is fast, easy to read, and lets you quickly jump around and exit the mode just as easily as you entered it.
Harry’s presentation on Org-Mode is great. He shares his personal preferences. You can read his blog to learn about them too. The meter to the presentation is perfect, too. It left me thinking more about
