Ihor Radchenko writes: > Adding things like paper size is a much more debatable topic. > Considering the number of expected developments in this area, including > the earlier discussion on XeLaTeX/LuaTeX and preamble generation by TEC, > adding the new specific defaults will need to be a subject of extensive > discussion and testing. I do not see much point delaying this patch, > which provides an immediate improvement in the codebase, until we > complete all that.
I agree that adding more elements to the standard preamble is a complex matter. LaTeX is already horribly complex and multiple, and it is difficult to satisfy all kinds of users with a standard code. It occurred to me that an alternative to modifying Org's code in this regard could be to have some kind of "LaTeX template library". I think Pandoc has something similar too, if I remember correctly. Those templates could be on Org or provided by third parties somewhere else, like Worg. In Org, we also have a great system for creating LaTeX documents templates, which is the org-latex-classes list. A large number of elements could be defined in a 'single' class for any type of document. Some time ago I shared here a function I wrote (it's a bit raw and little tested) to be able to convert a LaTeX document (the preamble) into a lisp expression to be added to org-latex-classes: https://list.orgmode.org/87czgly8x8....@posteo.net/ On the one hand Org would offer a more or less basic preamble out of the box and on the other hand there could be a "org-latex-classes library" (extensible by users) that would support a multitude of LaTeX document types or users. This would include preamble types with a bunch of components: page layout, fonts, lua code, custom LaTeX commands, custom lua functions, article types, book types, etc. It would suffice to add: #+latex_class: foo and the magic is done. Best regards, Juan Manuel