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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: avdi@avdi.org
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:23:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6155.1303943022@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> of "Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:47:47 EDT." <BANLkTi=t79W1pXybLzof1w-4QHuM0PU_MQ@mail.gmail.com>

Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> > Just star them by hand in the tex file after exporting for the last
> > time: it'll take two seconds. You may be able to do it from Org by
> > writing a custom function (C-h v org-export-latex-classes <RET> for
> > details) but I suspect that the effort is just not worth it.
> 
> 
> Ugh. This is a (somewhat) living document; manually tweaking the .tex
> after export isn't really an option.
> 
> I was hoping there was a tag or property that I could set on a section
> indicating it is frontmatter/backmatter.
> 

I don't know of an easy way within Org - somebody else might have better
ideas.

If I were in your position, I'd probably write a simple Makefile to
produce the PDF and incorporate a simple post-processing awk script
to do the transformation. Or write an elisp function to run as
part of org-export-latex-final-hook perhaps.

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27 20:57 Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
     [not found] ` <groups@inbox.avdi.org>
2011-04-27 21:41   ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 21:47     ` Avdi Grimm
2011-04-27 22:23       ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-04-28  7:55         ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-28 11:36           ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 19:04   ` Dumbquotes in exported source listings Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 22:21 ` Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
2011-04-28 11:06   ` Eric S Fraga
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-30 23:39 Dumbquotes in exported source listings Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01  3:13 ` Ben Finney
2011-05-01 16:41   ` Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01 19:08   ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 20:26     ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-05-01 21:31       ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 21:40       ` Ben Finney
2011-05-01 21:27     ` Ben Finney

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