Re: fullpage.sty replacement [WAS: Problem with LaTeX snippets preview]

From: Tim Burt <tcburt@rochester.rr.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: fullpage.sty replacement [WAS: Problem with LaTeX snippets preview]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19137.19171.840016.96455@nitrogen.burtket> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF2BC4C7-B7FD-4012-9A34-A70016EA14F0@gmail.com>

Carsten ---

Ah, I see.  I had not become one with the thread to see that this was
not used for documents.  Now I get to learn something new.  It's a
good day.

Good evening,
Tim

Carsten Dominik writes:
 > Hi Tim,
 > 
 > I have applied your patch, thanks.
 > 
 > The header for the LaTeX files used to produce PDF export independent
 > from this.  The stuff here is only used to create small images that
 > will be displayed in Emacs or used in HTML export.
 > 
 > - Carsten
 > 
 > On Sep 26, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Tim Burt wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > In another thread there was a discussion about replacing the
 > > use of fullpage.sty with its functionality.
 > > NickD> Looks like the culprit is fullpage.sty - seems to be required
 > > NickD> by the LaTeX code that org-preview-latex-fragment generates.
 > >
 > > CarstenD> I believe the reason that this is used it to make sure that
 > > CarstenD> wide formulas can still be formatted reasonably well,
 > > CarstenD> without additional line breaks.  I guess we could inline
 > > CarstenD> the content of this small package.
 > > CarstenD>
 > > CarstenD> Would somebody like to try to replace this with just the
 > > CarstenD> margin setting commands of fullpage.sty?
 > > With continued thanks to Patrick Daly, the author of fullpage.sty and
 > > my favorite LaTeX book "A Guide to LaTeX2e", I put the margin and text
 > > size settings accomplished by fullpage.sty in org-format-latex-header
 > > of org.el.
 > > Org-mode version 6.30trans (release_6.30d.882.gdbd63.dirty)
 > > The diff below is offered as a step towards inlining the
 > > functionality.
 > >
 > > The caveats:
 > > 1. This is untested
 > >   - When I execute org-export-as-pdf some other header appears in
 > >     the .tex file, and I have not yet discovered the source of this
 > >     other header.
 > > 2. This is the first time I've done a git diff.
 > >
 > > If there are troubles in testing I will be happy to help resolve.
 > >
 > > Good morning,
 > > Tim
 > >
 > > Output of git diff org.el:
 > > diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
 > > index 89d3bc8..8772968 100644
 > > --- a/lisp/org.el
 > > +++ b/lisp/org.el
 > > @@ -2678,13 +2678,24 @@ This is a property list with the following  
 > > properties:
 > >  :type 'plist)
 > >
 > > (defcustom org-format-latex-header "\\documentclass{article}
 > > -\\usepackage{fullpage}         % do not remove
 > > \\usepackage{amssymb}
 > > \\usepackage[usenames]{color}
 > > \\usepackage{amsmath}
 > > \\usepackage{latexsym}
 > > \\usepackage[mathscr]{eucal}
 > > -\\pagestyle{empty}             % do not remove"
 > > +\\pagestyle{empty}             % do not remove
 > > +\\setlength{\\textwidth}{\\paperwidth}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\textwidth}{-3cm}
 > > +\\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{1.5cm}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\oddsidemargin}{-2.54cm}
 > > +\\setlength{\\evensidemargin}{\\oddsidemargin}
 > > +\\setlength{\\textheight}{\\paperheight}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\headheight}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\headsep}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\footskip}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-3cm}
 > > +\\setlength{\\topmargin}{1.5cm}
 > > +\\addtolength{\\topmargin}{-2.54cm}"
 > >  "The document header used for processing LaTeX fragments."
 > >  :group 'org-latex
 > >  :type 'string)
 > >
 > >
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