Sebastian Rose wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One comment. I've been using LaTeX for about 15 years, Emacs for about
2 years and Org-Mode for about 8 months. My LaTeX files are heavily
customized and I'm used to working with them without org-mode. My few,
and not very serious, attempts to move my LaTeX work to org-mode have
not given satisfactory results, so I've put off changing my work flow
until I have more time to figure out the LaTeX export features of
org-mode. But, I am using org-mode extensively for my other work
related tasks. I have org files that keep track of my students' grades
and my web site is built from a single org file. As you pointed out in
your talk, org-mode allows one to work!
There was a post on this list from Russel Adams, that shows how to use
custom LaTeX headers. My setup is derived from that post, and enables
the usage of a commen LaTeX-header for Org export and the rest of my
LaTeX files:
.emacs:
(setq org-export-latex-classes (cons '("myarticle"
"% BEGIN My Article Defaults
\\input{/home/sebastian/develop/lib/latex/header-pdf.tex}
"
("\\rzchapteridx{%s}" . "\\rzchapteridx{%s}")
("\\rzsection{%s}{}" . "\\rzsection{%s}")
("\\rzsubsection{%s}" . "\\rzsubsection{%s}")
("\\rzsubsubsection{%s}" . "\\rzsubsubsection{%s}"))
org-export-latex-classes))
As you can see here, I include the common header file, and customize
the classes used for headlines on export. Since now the creation of
PDFs is now possible directly from Org-mode (C-c C-e p), this is the
easiest way to do it.
*.org:
#+LaTeX_CLASS: myarticle
Thanks for this information. I still have a long way to go before I can
use org-mode for LaTeX export.
First, I don't know emacs lisp. I've been planning to learn it, but
finding the time is difficult and I'm not a professional programmer.
Second, the customizations I use for LaTeX vary widely between files. My
understanding of your code, please correct me if I'm wrong, is that if I
have multiple header files for different types of documents, then I must
change my .emacs each time I want to change headers. This doesn't seem
to be very convenient to me. I suppose it is possible to write some code
to take care of multiple header files, but what if one has a brand new
header file?
Please understand that I haven't really explored the LaTeX export
features of org-mode very thoroughly. However, my impression is that the
LaTeX export capabilities of org-mode are somewhat limited at this time.
This isn't a bad thing. I don't think org-mode was designed to be a
replacement for something like AUCTeX. Anyway, org-mode is works well
for me for non-LaTeX tasks, so I'll continue to rely on it.
Scott Randby
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