Hi Christopher,

Would you like to provide a patch?

- Carsten

On 31.5.2013, at 09:58, Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> wrote:

> Sorry for the late reply.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure either, I pretty much just blindly followed the instructions on the FAQ.  I don't think this is at all the minimum you need to get xelatex working, it also sets up a few other things.  For instance it used latexmk instead of just recompiling a few times.  Perhaps the FAQ should be split up into a few different questions:
> 1. minimum setup for XeLaTeX, something similar to your setup
> 2. how to use latexmk
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On 22 May 2013 19:07, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:42:04PM +0200, Christopher Witte wrote:
> >
> > I had export working using XeLaTeX using the instructions from the
> > FAQ<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#using-xelatex-for-pdf-export>(with
> > some slight modifications), but after upgrading to the new export it
> > isn't working.  It appears the hook
> > org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook isn't defined anymore.
> >
> > Any advice on what I need to change to get it to work?
> 
> I have noticed discussions on this before and I fail to understand the
> need for all the setup mentioned in the above Worg entry.  I use XeLaTeX
> almost exclusively, and all I have is something like this:
> 
>   ;;; XeLaTeX customisations
>   ;; remove "inputenc" from default packages as it clashes with xelatex
>   (setf org-latex-default-packages-alist
>         (remove '("AUTO" "inputenc" t) org-latex-default-packages-alist))
> 
>   (add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "xltxtra" t))
>   ;; choose Linux Libertine O as serif and Linux Biolinum O as sans-serif fonts
>   (add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "libertineotf" t))
> 
>   ;; org to latex customisations, -shell-escape needed for minted
>   (setq org-export-dispatch-use-expert-ui t ; non-intrusive export dispatch
>         org-latex-pdf-process               ; for regular export
>         '("xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"))
> 
> For beamer export I add this line:
> 
>   #+LaTeX_HEADER: \setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O}
> 
> So far I have not encountered any problems.  Although I have to say, I
> do not use unicode in mathmode.
> 
> I am curious to know why others need all this elaborate setup to use
> XeLaTeX.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 
>