From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [bug] latex export ignores org-export-latex-default-packages-alist?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:34:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3njaaka.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362tbac27.fsf@e4300lm.epcc.ed.ac.uk> (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:01:52 +0000")
Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>> I need to use the amsmath package for a paper I am writing. This
>> conflicts, unfortunately, with the wasysym package which is loaded by
>> default in the org-latex exporter.
>
>> Checking the documentation for org-export-latex-classes, I find:
>
>> ,----
>> | - Calls to \usepackage for all packages mentioned in the variables
>> | `org-export-latex-default-packages-alist' and
>> | `org-export-latex-packages-alist'. Thus, your header definitions should
>> | avoid to also request these packages.
>> `----
>
>> I then checked out the first of these lists and customised it (first, by
>> hand, then by emacs's own customisation method) to turn off the
>> inclusion of wasysym. The value of the variable, upon restarting emacs
>> just to make sure, is:
>
> [...]
>
>> If SNIPPET-FLAG is t, the package also needs to be included when
>> compiling LaTeX snippets into images for inclusion into HTML.
>
> You've set SNIPPET-FLAG to nil for wasysym, but this means
> that wasysym will not be included for compiling latex snippets.
> When producing the whole document it will still be included.
Ahhh, I missed this. Too much reading today and I obviously didn't
concentrate enough on this bit... <blush>
I guess I should have simply deleted that entry from the list now that I
better understand (I think ;-) the settings in this variable.
> To use wasysym along with amsmath, you need to pass the
> "integrals" option to wasysym.
>
> To do this, customize the options list of the wasysym entry to be
> ("integrals" "wasysym" t)
>
> rather than
> ("" "wasysym" t)
>
> This is what I do to use amsmath in Org exports:
>
> | (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-packages-alist '("" "amsmath" t))
> | (setcar (rassoc '("wasysym" t) org-export-latex-default-packages-alist)
> | "integrals")
>
> The latter has to be done after loading org-latex.
Perfect! A bit "magical incantation" at first glance but it makes
sense. I've done this and it works like a charm.
Many thanks.
--
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.239.g65ac.dirty)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-26 15:33 [bug] latex export ignores org-export-latex-default-packages-alist? Eric S Fraga
2011-01-26 16:01 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-01-26 16:34 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-01-26 16:06 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-26 17:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-26 16:27 ` Eric S Fraga
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