Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal.rosset@gmail.com> writes:

> Many thanks Eric for this email and the attachment.
>
> Of course it is very useful.
>
> 2014-08-05 2:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I thoroughly enjoyed using Org-mode to write my dissertation.  I was
>> happy to be able to export (mostly) equivalent versions of the document
>> to HTML and PDF.  I'd recommend using Org-mode for such a complex
>> writing task to those who are either willing to hack the exporter, or
>> are willing to accept an Org-mode document with inline LaTeX which only
>> /really/ works with the LaTeX backend.
>>
>> As I fall in the former category, here are the small extensions to the
>> Org-mode exporter which I found necessary.  Thanks to the new exporting
>> backend they were uniformly easy to implement.  They are included in the
>> attached elisp file.  Each pagefeed (^L) in the file marks a new section
>> of functionality, the sections are as follows...
>>
>>  1. Ignore Headlines and keep content (discussed here recently)
>>  2. Multi-column Table Cells
>>  3. Wide tables extend into the margins.
>>  4. Wide tables squeezed within the margins
>>  5. "sc" links for the \sc{} latex command
>>  6. "gls" links for the \gls{} family of Glossary commands
>>  7. color links
>>  8. TIKZ figure links
>>  9. Tie certain latex commands to the preceding word.
>> 10. Fix emphasis in text export
>>
>> A simplified version of my Makefile is also attached.  I hope someone
>> finds this useful.
>>
>> Best,
>> Eric
>>
>
> Can you tell us how using the Makefile in order to test all these functions
> for a dissertation?

The Makefile and the code do not need to be used together.

> I am especially interested by points 2 and 8.
>

For point 2 try adding the following above a wide table in an Org-mode
document (after evaluating the code).

  #+ATTR_LaTeX: :environment wide

On export this should allow your table to cut into the page margins
(note: for my school I later had to undo this as there were strict rules
about margins in dissertations).

Point 8 is a little more involved.  I prefer to convert my TIKZ figures
to svg for HTML export, and keep them as raw tikz for LaTeX export.  I
found that the easiest way to do this (for me at least), was to keep the
figures in external .tex files.  I would then manually generate an svg
version of these files using the tex2svg script (attached).  With these
files on hand, the code in Point 8 will export Org-mode text like the
following.

  #+name: llvm-mutation
  #+Caption[LLVM Transformations]: Illustration of transformations over LLVM IR.  These transformations require that the SSA data dependency graph be repaired after each mutation.
  #+TIKZ_Figure: llvm-mutation

so that the file llvm-mutation.tex is included in LaTeX export wrapped
in a figure, and the file llvm-mutation.svg is included as an image in
HTML export.

Best,
Eric