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From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>
To: emacs@vergauwen.me
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, yantar92@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ob-latex: Added support for including files with a relative path
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 12:18:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F6C57C8-A1BC-4721-92D3-AC61285A7DDB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <N6HTxLN--3-2@vergauwen.me>

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First time to hear that. 
I wasn’t aware of it 8-0. 
Will need to recheck my projects and settings to see what I was accidentally doing right… in the sense that it was working as intended…

Thx/PA

PS: once again I’ll go to sleep and will have learnt something new (as the Spanish proverb goes)

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> El 6 jul 2022, a las 9:49, emacs@vergauwen.me escribió:
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Hi, adding an "input" type of header is one option. What about adding a
> >>> call to resolve relative file names instead, thus solving maybe other
> >>> needs in addition?
> >>>
> >> That was my second approach. I was concerned that forcing all imports with
> >> an absolute path could break existing exports? Correct me if I'm wrong. 
> >> Using the :header syntax external files can be loaded in via the old way,
> >> whereas using :inputs all relative paths are resolved. 
> >> The downside of course is that we clutter the export settings with a new 
> >> parameter. 
> >
> >Rather than changing paths to absolute, we can simply play with the
> >working directly for latex process and set it to the directory of the
> >.org file (unless :dir argument is passed to the latex source block).
> >This is probably the most expected behavior.
> >
> >Best,
> >Ihor
> 
> Just my .01 cents...
> 
> For Latex stuff I'm using just
> 
> #+HEADER: \input{preamble} 
> 
> and have my preamble.tex in the working directory. (For Beamer stuff it goes in a LATEX_HEADER).
> 
> Changing that to
> 
> #+HEADER :inputs '("preamble")
> 
> well, would be a matter of taste. 
> Ox-beamer (ox-latex) executes all latex commands at the current directory of 
> your org file, whereas ob-latex uses a temporary file to do its thing. 
> (with-temp-file FILE &rest BODY)
> I think this is mostly done to prent metafiles from cluttering your current 
> directory. 
> 
> Different export types, or different user included packages, generate different
> metafiles. This makes an automated cleanup process afterwards a bit more
> complicated I think, if not impossible. 
> 
> The temporary file makes it hard to add files to the working directory. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-06 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06  6:53 Re: [PATCH] ob-latex: Added support for including files with a relative path Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
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2022-07-06  7:49   ` emacs--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-07-06 10:18     ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez [this message]
2022-07-07 10:52     ` Ihor Radchenko
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2022-07-04 19:15 emacs--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-07-05 10:43 ` Daniel Fleischer
2022-07-05 10:52   ` emacs--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-07-05 11:05     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-05 13:29       ` Daniel Fleischer
2022-07-05 13:50         ` Ihor Radchenko

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