Ista Zahn <iz...@psych.rochester.edu> writes: > Hi all, > Over the past couple of days I've been happily tweaking my org-mode > settings. At one point something happened that gave me great pause. I > forgot to load a function that adds an APA style LaTeX export (using > apa6e.cls) to my org-export-latex-classes Alist. So of course when I > tried to export using that class it did not work. This made me realize > that my .org document depended on my .emacs file for export! This > strikes me as a very bad thing because if I want others to be able to > use my .org document I have to distribute (at least the relevant parts > of) my .emacs along with it. > > So all this got me thinking that perhaps setting up lots of > complicated org-mode related stuff in my .emacs is a bad idea, and > that perhaps I should use a template to do the setup in each .org > file. > > Please share any tips or suggestions you have related to this. What do > you do? How well does it work? What suggestions do you have for > someone just starting out with org-mode? > > Thanks! >
I find that file-local-variables can be a convenient and portable way to include the relevant Org-mode configuration in the actual org-mode file itself. See [1], specifically the second longer form which can be placed at the end of a file. I've used this to specify custom latex classes, as well as change default export options. Best -- Eric Footnotes: [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
