Leo, Thanks again, it seems the answer lies in Latex, rather than OrgMode, so I will work away at that.
having said that, the commands you gave me are extremely useful for making a stand alone diagram to insert as a graphic into some other document. So well worth knowing. Graham 2009/8/8 Leo <sdl....@gmail.com>: > On 2009-08-08 22:14 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: >> Based on this I have altered the headers in orgmode to >> >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{tikz} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usetikzlibrary{mindmap,trees} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture} >> #+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength\PreviewBorder{20pt} >> >> This has certainly solved the mindmap position problem, but now the >> resultant pdf loses all the text from the original orgmode file. :-( >> >> I assume I don't need to add the document class line? > > In that case, you can use geometry package or scale your tikz picture so > that it fits into the textwidth. > > -- > Emacs uptime: 1 day, 5 hours, 57 minutes, 35 seconds > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode