From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: srandby@gmail.com Subject: Re: Org-Mode Presentation Videos Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:02:07 -0400 Message-ID: <48FB761F.4030804@gmail.com> References: <20081016191332.GE1080@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> <48F8E7C4.9030405@gmail.com> <20081017195510.GK1080@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> <48F9FB5A.9000301@gmail.com> <48FA35F3.6080609@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Krcbs-00041r-6T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:02:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Krcbq-000413-JM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:02:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37056 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Krcbq-00040z-ER for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:02:34 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]:19668) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Krcbp-0006eY-WC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:02:34 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c38so145978ana.84 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:02:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48FA35F3.6080609@gmx.de> 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: "[emacs-orgmode]" Sebastian Rose wrote: > srandby@gmail.com wrote: >> One comment. I've been using LaTeX for about 15 years, Emacs for about >> 2 years and Org-Mode for about 8 months. My LaTeX files are heavily >> customized and I'm used to working with them without org-mode. My few, >> and not very serious, attempts to move my LaTeX work to org-mode have >> not given satisfactory results, so I've put off changing my work flow >> until I have more time to figure out the LaTeX export features of >> org-mode. But, I am using org-mode extensively for my other work >> related tasks. I have org files that keep track of my students' grades >> and my web site is built from a single org file. As you pointed out in >> your talk, org-mode allows one to work! > > There was a post on this list from Russel Adams, that shows how to use > custom LaTeX headers. My setup is derived from that post, and enables > the usage of a commen LaTeX-header for Org export and the rest of my > LaTeX files: > > .emacs: > > (setq org-export-latex-classes (cons '("myarticle" > "% BEGIN My Article Defaults > \\input{/home/sebastian/develop/lib/latex/header-pdf.tex} > " > > ("\\rzchapteridx{%s}" . "\\rzchapteridx{%s}") > ("\\rzsection{%s}{}" . "\\rzsection{%s}") > ("\\rzsubsection{%s}" . "\\rzsubsection{%s}") > ("\\rzsubsubsection{%s}" . "\\rzsubsubsection{%s}")) > org-export-latex-classes)) > > As you can see here, I include the common header file, and customize > the classes used for headlines on export. Since now the creation of > PDFs is now possible directly from Org-mode (C-c C-e p), this is the > easiest way to do it. > > *.org: > > #+LaTeX_CLASS: myarticle > Thanks for this information. I still have a long way to go before I can use org-mode for LaTeX export. First, I don't know emacs lisp. I've been planning to learn it, but finding the time is difficult and I'm not a professional programmer. Second, the customizations I use for LaTeX vary widely between files. My understanding of your code, please correct me if I'm wrong, is that if I have multiple header files for different types of documents, then I must change my .emacs each time I want to change headers. This doesn't seem to be very convenient to me. I suppose it is possible to write some code to take care of multiple header files, but what if one has a brand new header file? Please understand that I haven't really explored the LaTeX export features of org-mode very thoroughly. However, my impression is that the LaTeX export capabilities of org-mode are somewhat limited at this time. This isn't a bad thing. I don't think org-mode was designed to be a replacement for something like AUCTeX. Anyway, org-mode is works well for me for non-LaTeX tasks, so I'll continue to rely on it. Scott Randby