From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Subject: Improvements in the default LaTeX preamble: templates? (was: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:06:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu76k95j.fsf_-_@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735erpx6z.fsf_-_@posteo.net> ("Juan Manuel Macías"'s message of "Sat, 23 Jul 2022 19:15:32 +0200")
Ihor Radchenko writes:
> Adding things like paper size is a much more debatable topic.
> Considering the number of expected developments in this area, including
> the earlier discussion on XeLaTeX/LuaTeX and preamble generation by TEC,
> adding the new specific defaults will need to be a subject of extensive
> discussion and testing. I do not see much point delaying this patch,
> which provides an immediate improvement in the codebase, until we
> complete all that.
I agree that adding more elements to the standard preamble is a complex
matter. LaTeX is already horribly complex and multiple, and it is
difficult to satisfy all kinds of users with a standard code. It
occurred to me that an alternative to modifying Org's code in this
regard could be to have some kind of "LaTeX template library". I think
Pandoc has something similar too, if I remember correctly. Those
templates could be on Org or provided by third parties somewhere else,
like Worg. In Org, we also have a great system for creating LaTeX
documents templates, which is the org-latex-classes list. A large number
of elements could be defined in a 'single' class for any type of
document.
Some time ago I shared here a function I wrote (it's a bit raw and
little tested) to be able to convert a LaTeX document (the preamble)
into a lisp expression to be added to org-latex-classes:
https://list.orgmode.org/87czgly8x8.fsf@posteo.net/
On the one hand Org would offer a more or less basic preamble out of the
box and on the other hand there could be a "org-latex-classes library"
(extensible by users) that would support a multitude of LaTeX document
types or users. This would include preamble types with a bunch of
components: page layout, fonts, lua code, custom LaTeX commands, custom
lua functions, article types, book types, etc. It would suffice to add:
#+latex_class: foo
and the magic is done.
Best regards,
Juan Manuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-24 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-03 15:28 [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-10 9:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-14 12:34 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-14 15:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-14 15:53 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-14 18:17 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-15 12:18 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-15 14:36 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-17 9:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-17 14:48 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-18 6:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-18 10:32 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-18 11:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-18 15:37 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-18 16:21 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 15:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 17:01 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-19 19:31 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-20 16:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-20 21:30 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-21 14:36 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-21 15:39 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-22 12:16 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-22 12:49 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-22 14:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-23 15:19 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-23 17:15 ` Improvements in the default LaTeX preamble (was: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists) Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-24 12:06 ` Juan Manuel Macías [this message]
2022-07-25 9:31 ` Improvements in the default LaTeX preamble: templates? " Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-25 10:45 ` Improvements in the default LaTeX preamble: templates? Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-23 5:01 ` [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 13:44 ` BUG " Kai von Fintel
2022-07-23 13:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 14:07 ` Kai von Fintel
2022-07-23 14:22 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 14:39 ` Kai von Fintel
2022-07-23 14:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 15:53 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-24 7:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-24 11:29 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-26 11:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-26 16:19 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-28 12:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 14:53 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-23 14:11 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-23 14:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 15:29 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-24 7:23 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-10 10:51 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-15 15:38 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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