From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org equivalent to \chapter*
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:05:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx5or4wt.fsf@pank.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53E2B054.1000605@gmail.com
Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
> On 07/08/14 05:52, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>> Aloha Rasmus,
>>
>
>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>>
>>> Thomas,
>>>
>>> tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>>>
>>>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't seem to find it. Is
>>>>>> there an org markup that produces a starred latex heading?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a book, for example, I want the Preface to be at chapter level, but
>>>>>> not included in the numbering. Same for HTML export, of course.
>>>>> You would probably need some sort of filter for this. Most certainly
>>>>> you will be able to find implementations on this list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's something from my init file that works with LaTeX. Other
>>>>> formats such as txt and html are harder since Org generates section
>>>>> numbers and the TOC.
>>>> Thanks for sharing this. It will be useful for book authors.
>>>>
>>>> Do you think it is possible to write a general headline filter that
>>>> takes care of all the various LaTeX possibilities?
>>> I don't like *one* filter to rule them all. Of course, if it's a
>>> collection of other function calls that is OK. As your recent
>>> question showed execution order may matter,
>>> (e.g. with :ignoreheading:clearpage:).
>>>
>>> Of course it's possible to bundle a couple of filters generally useful
>>> for ox-latex and provide a "consistent" interface. Alternatively, one
>>> could make a ox-latex+.el that provides a derived class with extra
>>> options. That's may be more work, and may be harder to hack.
>>>
>>> In fact Aaron started ox-extra.el, with the intention of providing
>>> "semi-official" extensions but Worg may be a better means of
>>> communication.
>>>
>>>> Right now Iʻm using tags to ignoreheading, clearpage, and newpage.
>>>> In addition to your nonum filter, Eric S. has a filter that gets rid
>>>> of a heading and promotes the content, which I havenʻt had occasion
>>>> to use, but also has its own tag.
>>> Yes, Eric has cool tree-based filter(s). I want to study them more
>>> carefully. Quite possibly, it's easier to provide elegant filters
>>> with trees. For instance, you have direct access to the element
>>> representation. In my filters I "hack" my way to this using
>>> text-properties.
>>>
>>>> From the LaTeX authorʻs point of view, it would be great to have a set
>>>> of tags (and options) that "just work."
>>> Would you want this as a derived class or filters? Perhaps it's
>>> easier to have a derived class with an alternative headline
>>> function. . .
>>>
>>>> Do you (and others) think the "tag and filter" approach can achieve
>>>> this? Or, are there too many moving parts to make it feasible?
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> The ox-koma-script interface is basically controlled via tags. I
>>> think it's nice.
>> Thanks for this useful overview and the pointers to good examples.
>>
>> Iʻve been slowly building a set of filters and links that work for me,
>> but each new project differs a bit from the previous one and I have to
>> fiddle with the Org mode setup. Iʻm eager to get to the place Iʻm at
>> with LaTeX, where I just jump in and start writing.
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Tom
>>
> Thanks to everyone who responded.
>
> Several of my books are out of print and I am converting them to ePub
> and to printed form. ePub is pretty smooth by exporting to HTML and
> then using Calibre. LaTeX is the obvious choice for print.
Have you seen this project:
https://github.com/rzoller/tex2ebook
I haven't tried it myself, but the process seems similar to what you
are doing only that it uses hevea to convert from tex to html.
—Rasmus
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 0:11 Org equivalent to \chapter* Alan L Tyree
2014-08-06 1:11 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-06 2:28 ` Nick Dokos
2014-08-06 8:09 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-08-06 9:18 ` Rasmus
2014-08-06 17:15 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-08-06 17:38 ` Rasmus
2014-08-06 19:52 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-08-06 22:46 ` Alan L Tyree
2014-08-07 10:05 ` Rasmus [this message]
2014-08-07 22:07 ` Alan L Tyree
2014-08-08 8:42 ` Rasmus
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