From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: A LaTeX class for Org-mode export Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:58:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1968C361-BB7A-4900-AA80-890934E03EE1@gmail.com> References: <382F36E0-825B-4EC0-A44A-CFEA708157D4@gmail.com> <77AA8FA8-FC83-47B0-81DC-E6D83EA7A0D5@tsdye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43125 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7MGQ-0001Ql-Gg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:58:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7MGO-0005X7-RI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:58:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:59076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7MGO-0005X2-JM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:58:32 -0400 Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1529123ewy.0 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:58:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <77AA8FA8-FC83-47B0-81DC-E6D83EA7A0D5@tsdye.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thomas S. Dye" Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist Hi Tom, On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Carsten, > > Thanks for your kind words. I'm having fun with org-article.cls and > am happy to have Org support in the ways that you mention. Great. Would you like to make me a patch which does all this? If you want, you can also create a new directory in contrib. You can also have write permission for the git repo in order to install updates for this. > > Right now I think the class's main contribution is that it eases > configuration of LaTeX export. > > For the future (perhaps distant), I'm hoping org-article.cls will > make the case that Org should identify other semantic elements in > LaTeX export, leaving the details of their representation to the > LaTeX class. > > For example: > > paths: Paths are frequently quite long and when they don't include > spaces LaTeX can have a difficult time breaking them at the end of a > line. There is a LaTeX package, url.sty, that handles this. I > believe that the hyperref package loads url.sty for this > functionality, so it is available to the LaTeX exporter with the > current defaults. If paths were identified in the export, > e.g., \org-path{/long/path/to/my/file/deep/in/the/directory/tree}, > then the LaTeX class could typeset this with either the \url{} > command (if hyperref wasn't being used), with \nolinkurl{} (if > hyperref was being used), or some other way appropriate to the class. > > lists: In addition to compact lists (I agree with you that they are > an improvement over the standard LaTeX lists), it should be possible > to typeset lists inside paragraphs. I'm not certain how this might > be handled in Org-mode, perhaps an #+property or other entity that > could be set on a list-specific basis. The LaTeX paralist package > that is responsible for the compact lists does a good job > typesetting lists in paragraphs, as well. > > #+results: I'm integrating Eric Fraga's GANTT chart code, which > generates the LaTeX code to create a high quality graphic using an > Org-mode table as input. Currently, the #+results: of Eric's code > aren't exported unless I add a blank line between the #+results: and > #+BEGIN_LaTeX lines. If, instead, the results block were exported > inside a LaTeX environment, say \begin{org-results} \end{org- > results}, then org-article.cls (or any other LaTeX class) could > define an environment to typeset the results appropriately. With > the blank line inserted, LaTeX export yields a listing of the LaTeX > code, which is all well and good, but it doesn't get set off *as a > result*, which might be useful to distinguish it from regular source > code blocks in the Org-mode file. > > I'm not advocating for any specific changes here. I'm just trying > to indicate a possibly useful development path for Org-mode LaTeX > export in tandem with custom LaTeX classes. I will be very interested to see what else you come up with. Cheers - Carsten > > All the best, > Tom > > > On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Dan just made me look again at this thread, which I had not yet >> studied closely. >> >> I think you have created something very useful indeed. I love >> the compact lists, and I am sure there is a lot more I would use. >> So I am wondering: What can Org do to support and integrate this >> class? I can think of a couple of things: >> >> - distribute it in contrib >> - advertise it in the manual >> - have it as one of the default classes in org-export-latex-classes >> >> But maybe you have other ideas? >> >> Cheers >> >> - Carsten >> >> >> On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: >> >>> Aloha all, >>> >>> I'd like to draw your attention to a LaTeX class that I put >>> together in response to posts here about configuring the output of >>> the LaTeX exporter. The class supports all of the Org-mode LaTeX >>> default packages. It supports the standard LaTeX article class >>> and the KOMA-script scrartcl class and provides several choices of >>> fonts. In addition, it includes facilities to apply >>> microtypographic adjustments to suitable fonts, set the line >>> spacing of the document to double space, set lists more compactly >>> than the standard LaTeX article.cls, and typeset source code >>> listings, optionally with color. >>> >>> The documentation that should appear shortly in the Babel/Uses >>> section of Worg includes two examples that illustrate use of the >>> class. The first uses the standard LaTeX article class and Times, >>> Helvetica, and Courier fonts with a 12 point base size to typeset >>> the literate program on 8.5 x 11 in. paper, with colored source >>> code listings and microtypographic adjustments. >>> >>>> #+LaTeX_CLASS: org-article-subsubsection >>>> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [article,letterpaper,times, >>>> 12pt,listings,color,microtype] >>> >>> The second uses the KOMA-script scrartcl class and Utopia, Bera, >>> and Inconsolata fonts with a 10 point base size to typeset the >>> literate program on 5.8 x 8.3 in. paper in landscape mode, also >>> with colored source code listings and microtypographic >>> adjustments. In addition, lists are set tighter than with the >>> standard LaTeX article class. >>> >>>> #+LaTeX_CLASS: org-article-subsubsection >>>> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [koma,a5paper,landscape,utopia, >>>> 10pt,listings,color,microtype,paralist] >>> >>> The project is hosted at GitHub: >>> http://github.com/tsdye/org-article >>> >>> All the best, >>> Tom >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> >