From: Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTex export questions
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:25:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2eyvb3a.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mwe2c30n.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
> Igor Sosa Mayor <joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm trying to export an org-mode doc to LaTex and subsequently to
>>> PDF. This is a literary novel, written in prose. Right now when I run
>>> the export command, the resulting file is incorrectly formatted for the
>>> literary world, and I'm not sure how to change it. Is there a dialog or
>>> "customize" menu that allows users to eliminate some default settings,
>>> and add others?
>>
>> Maybe you can configure it with
>> M-x customize-group org
>>
>> But I think a look at the manual is pretty useful and you can configure
>> it in your .emacs without very much complication:
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Export-settings.html#Export-settings
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-and-PDF-export.html#LaTeX-and-PDF-export
>
> I may be barking up the wrong tree, but to me the problem seems to be
> not so much what org does, but what latex does. If that is so, then
> perhaps what is needed is a latex style file that formats prose
> "correctly for the literary world". That may be a non-trivial
> undertaking (but maybe not: typographical demands for a novel are
> trivial compared to say mathematics). Integrating such a hypothetical
> style file into org would be pretty easy.
>
> But perhaps the OP can clarify: what does "incorrectly formatted for
> the literary world" mean?
>
> Nick
Full disclosure: I'm a beginning emacs user, and I know nothing about
LaTex at all!
I'm not producing a "book" per se, but a manuscript that will be
printed on 8.5 x 11 pages and read by my agent or a publisher. The
conventions are simple, but thus far I haven't been able to understand
much of what I'm reading in the customize menu for org-mode.
Until now I've done this formatting with MS Word or Libre Office. I
dislike those programs, but I know how to use them. Simplest has been to
take my raw org-mode txt files and convert them manually. It's a tedious
last step before sending downstream, which I'd love to replace, and I've
seen some beautiful LaTex examples online, so I know it's possible ...
Literary format redux:
+ 12 point text
+ Title page has title and author name, centered both horizontally and
vertically. Contact info for agent is in the bottom left, single spaced.
+ Remaining pages are double-spaced
+ Page numbers are centered at the bottom of the page (but no page number
on title page)
+ Each page has a right-justified header in the format LASTNAME/TITLE
That's it. I guess I'm wondering now--should I be learning more about
org-mode, or more about LaTex?
Thank you very much for taking the time to read all of this.
-Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-28 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 19:49 LaTex export questions Steven Arntson
2014-05-27 21:13 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-05-27 21:42 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-28 1:35 ` Alan L Tyree
2014-05-28 3:25 ` Steven Arntson [this message]
2014-05-28 4:31 ` Alan Tyree
2014-05-28 6:07 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 6:30 ` Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-31 7:25 ` Martin Schöön
2014-06-02 21:07 ` Alan Tyree
2014-05-28 12:39 ` Rick Frankel
2014-05-28 20:48 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 21:51 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-28 22:46 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 23:27 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-29 0:22 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-29 1:52 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-27 21:31 ` Charles Millar
2014-05-28 19:48 ` Bastien
2014-05-28 19:51 ` Grant Rettke
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