Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 24 Mar 2018 at 17:23, Samuel Wales wrote: > it looks much better now. i think the main thing i would want is to > color links differently from the default red box, like maybe color the > text "#8968cd" and underline it so it looks kind of like a web page. You can specify settings to

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-24 Thread Samuel Wales
i find that the following does not take effect the first time, but works the second time. not sure why that would be. it looks much better now. i think the main thing i would want is to color links differently from the default red box, like maybe color the text "#8968cd" and underline it so it l

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 18 Mar 2018 at 21:41, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 3/13/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Could you post a minimal example that illustrates this? > > here is the minimal example. [btw, it turns out that pandoc erros > now, so i have to either get your direct export code to work, or fix > pandoc's

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-18 Thread Samuel Wales
[never mind the comment below.. if i use \\ instead of \, it doesn't error, but produces default packages on the first page. then the document starts on the second page.] On 3/18/18, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 3/13/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Could you post a minimal example that illustrates this

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-18 Thread Samuel Wales
On 3/13/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Could you post a minimal example that illustrates this? here is the minimal example. [btw, it turns out that pandoc erros now, so i have to either get your direct export code to work, or fix pandoc's export.] *** NEXTKA fixing pdf to have better paragra

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 12 Mar 2018 at 16:42, Samuel Wales wrote: > seems to work. the only thing is that the first page is blank with > "[DEFAULT-PACKAGES] on it. i tried commenting that part out and got a > blank page. i presume this is because i am using maint and not > master. again thanks. Could you p

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-12 Thread Samuel Wales
seems to work. the only thing is that the first page is blank with "[DEFAULT-PACKAGES] on it. i tried commenting that part out and got a blank page. i presume this is because i am using maint and not master. again thanks.

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-12 Thread Samuel Wales
thank you. i will try it.

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-12 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 9 Mar 2018 at 17:30, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 3/9/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Type C-h v org-latex-classes RET for the full description. The >> header-string can include those particular indent and skip settings >> along with other bits. > > i consulted the docstring and the manual. t

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Wales
On 3/9/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Type C-h v org-latex-classes RET for the full description. The > header-string can include those particular indent and skip settings > along with other bits. i consulted the docstring and the manual. the description was greek to me and there was no reference to

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 9 Mar 2018 at 13:26, Samuel Wales wrote: [...] > in any case, greek to me. this was my best guess. > > (with-eval-after-load > (add-to-list org-latex-classes > '("org-latex" "\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{6pt}"))) No, this won't work. You need to check the documen

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Wales
On 3/8/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 8 Mar 2018 at 12:55, Samuel Wales wrote: >> On 3/3/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >>> #+latex_header: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{6pt} >> are there settings in .emacs that will do the same thing? > > Yes, you can put such commands in th

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-08 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 8 Mar 2018 at 12:55, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 3/3/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> #+latex_header: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{6pt} >> >> might give you "unbunched" "unindented" paragraphs. > > thank you. i will try that when i can. > > are there settings in .emacs tha

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-08 Thread Samuel Wales
On 3/3/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: > #+latex_header: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{6pt} > > might give you "unbunched" "unindented" paragraphs. thank you. i will try that when i can. are there settings in .emacs that will do the same thing? > A table of contents will probably onl

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-03 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 2 Mar 2018 at 11:53, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 3/2/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Why can you not use any LaTeX settings? Org has very extensive support >> for allowing tweaking of the formatting. > > delighted to learn of settings. So, I am not sure what it is you want to do but maybe a

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-02 Thread Diego Zamboni
I have also found that exporting to a .texi file (using ox-texinfo) and then using texi2pdf to generate a PDF produces, out of the box, a nicer-looking (IMO) document than the native LaTeX export. —Diego > On 2 Mar 2018, at 19:53, Samuel Wales wrote: > > On 3/2/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Wh

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-02 Thread Samuel Wales
On 3/2/18, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Why can you not use any LaTeX settings? Org has very extensive support > for allowing tweaking of the formatting. delighted to learn of settings.

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 1 Mar 2018 at 16:09, Samuel Wales wrote: > mostly ooc because pandoc looks good. > > but when i export a subtree [using recent maint] to pdf i get > paragraphs that are indented and bunched up, and a table of contents > is missing, and dunno what else. maybe a quote is not set off or

Re: [O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-01 Thread Samuel Wales
i didn't specify that what looks good to me is org export to html, to regular pandoc to pdf. congratulations to the html exporter people and the pandoc people. On 3/1/18, Samuel Wales wrote: > mostly ooc because pandoc looks good. > > but when i export a subtree [using recent maint] to pdf i get

[O] what settings would make original export to pdf as good as pandoc conversion?

2018-03-01 Thread Samuel Wales
mostly ooc because pandoc looks good. but when i export a subtree [using recent maint] to pdf i get paragraphs that are indented and bunched up, and a table of contents is missing, and dunno what else. maybe a quote is not set off or something like that. just wondering if anybody has settings or