From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [PATCH] latex export - title placement Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20262.1307030227@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87wrhbdmjk.wl%sebhofer@gmail.com> <871uzcmz3c.wl%sebhofer@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSAHE-0007sf-1Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSAHC-0004XM-6u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:39 -0400 Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:52419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSAHC-0004XC-3S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:38 -0400 Received: from alphaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LM600DP66Z7U390@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:57:21 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Sebastian Hofer of "Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:12:07 +0200." <871uzcmz3c.wl%sebhofer@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Sebastian Hofer Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Sebastian Hofer wrote: > At Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:05:28 -0400, > Nick Dokos wrote: > > > > Thomas S. Dye wrote: > > > > > Sebastian Hofer writes: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > This patch addresses the problem of ambiguous conventions for the > > > > placement of the title related macros (\author, \date,...) with > > > > respect to the main document body in different latex classes. It > > > > introduces the following changes: > > > > > > > > * org-exp.el: > > > > - added the following options: > > > > - title-position (tpos) > > > > - with-title (wtitle) > > > > - with-author (wauth) > > > > [This is mostly addressed to Sebastian even though I'm replying to Tom's > > reply.] > > > > An empty > > > > #+AUTHOR: > > > > disables the insertion of author (assuming that TITLE is not empty - > > see below.) > > > > > > > > - with-date (wdate) > > > > An empty > > > > #+DATE: > > > > disables the insertion of date (same assumption.) > > > > > > - with-maketitle (wmtitle) > > > > An empty > > > > #+TITLE: > > > > disables the insertion of \maketitle. > > To be honest, I didn't try setting empty author and date (which of > course makes sense) I just tried not setting them at all, which gives > default values. The main reason I submitted this patch, however, is > having better control of \maketitle. Personally I would like to be > able to have the title and author at the beginning of the file, just > for the looks, and still be able to produce a customized title. Of > course it is highly debatable if this is a sound reason to introduce > new options (I would argue yes). > Before anybody else wastes their time on this: I'm not sure whether I was in an alternative universe yesterday, or I am in one today, but I can't even reproduce my own results. I'll start again and try to get it right this time, but I'm not going to be able to do that immediately. Apologies for the confusion. Nick