From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: LaTex export questions Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:42:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87mwe2c30n.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> References: <87mwe3uhmt.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <871tve7wmj.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpP8m-0006KV-0y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 17:42:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpP8g-000725-Hr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 17:42:35 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WpP8g-00071r-Ao for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 17:42:30 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WpP8f-0007h7-HJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 23:42:29 +0200 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 23:42:29 +0200 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 23:42:29 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Igor Sosa Mayor writes: > Steven Arntson 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