Re: [O] Portable formatting of export?

2013-10-22 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Klaus, IIUC, you are describing a setup that can also be described as reproducible research. The idea behind reproducible research is to have a stand-alone Org file that exactly reproduces the analysis reported in a scientific paper, then prepares a copy of the document submitted for publica

Re: [O] Portable formatting of export?

2013-10-22 Thread Klaus-Dieter Bauer
There are several problems with this approach: 1. In order to force default behaviour, I'd have to set ALL customization variables of org explicitly (can be avoided by using an "emacs -q" session for compiling). 2. Even setting just a single setting can be very verbose (e.g. when defining a new do

Re: [O] Portable formatting of export?

2013-10-22 Thread Rasmus
Hi Klaus, Klaus-Dieter Bauer writes: > This left me wondering however, if it is possible to create org files that > will produce the same output on every machine, regardless of the local > emacs customizations (of course assuming that no hacks of the export engine > are part of the configuration

Re: [O] Portable formatting of export?

2013-10-21 Thread Eric Schulte
This can be done with file local variables. See the following page of the Emacs manual. (info "(emacs)Specifying File Variables") Klaus-Dieter Bauer writes: > Hello! > > I have customized org export to both html and latex extensively since I > disliked many of the defaults (e.g. the use of a

[O] Portable formatting of export?

2013-10-21 Thread Klaus-Dieter Bauer
Hello! I have customized org export to both html and latex extensively since I disliked many of the defaults (e.g. the use of article vs scrartcl, red borders around pdf hyperlinks). This left me wondering however, if it is possible to create org files that will produce the same output on every m