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From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: chris.m.malone@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-export-latex-classes issue
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:49:54 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B241AC3-212F-4CD2-A62B-5F2339E0E313@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00163628393eae15aa0493112b25@google.com>

On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:11 AM, chris.m.malone@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a n00b to Lisp and org-mode so please forgive me if the answer  
> is obvious. I'm using version 7.01h of org-mode.
>
> I'm trying to set up a custom Latex class to use for preparing a  
> document. Some Google searching showed that I need to add this class  
> to the org-export-latex-classes symbol. I tried to do this in  
> my .emacs file, for example following what is listed at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.php 
>  by adding the following to my .emacs file:
>
> (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
> '("article"
> "\\documentclass{article}"
> ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")))
>
>
> I know that org-export-latex-default-class is already set to  
> "article" but this example already shows that something is wrong.  
> When I load emacs the debugger complains that org-export-latex- 
> classes is an empty list:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-export-latex-classes)
> add-to-list(org-export-latex-classes ("article" "\ 
> \documentclass{article}" ("$
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/cmalone/.emacs" nil t) ;  
> Reading at$
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/cmalone/.emacs" "/home/ 
> cmalone/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
> #[nil "^H\205\276^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@ \311=\2033^@ 
> \312\307\31$
> command-line()
> normal-top-level()
>
> As far as I can tell, org-export-latex-classes is set to nil in org- 
> latex.el, but this isn't loaded until the export dispatcher calls  
> org-export-as-latex. Is this correct? Coincidentally, if I export to  
> latex, the appropriate .tex file is created without issue.
>
> My original goal was to setup a custom Latex class - I have tried in  
> the same manner as that used above for the "article" class and the  
> debugger produces the same result. However, when I attempt to export  
> to latex I get the error that my custom class isn't in the org- 
> export-latex-classes list, presumably because of the failure in  
> loading the .emacs file.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Chris_______________________________________________

Hi Chris,

My tutorial might have been over-optimistic about the ease of  
configuration.  Perhaps you also need this in your .emacs before you  
add-to-list:

  (require 'org-latex)

All the best,
Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20 19:11 org-export-latex-classes issue chris.m.malone
2010-10-20 19:49 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-10-20 19:54   ` Chris Malone
2010-10-20 20:01     ` Thomas S. Dye

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