From: Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTex export questions
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 23:07:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbsqtp0y.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGMsgMw5hdtNf=RmFcWyR0Zda7yDEyGnFH90xkUDtF1JfjMGqA@mail.gmail.com
Hi Alan,
I downloaded the book and went through it--thank you for putting that
together! It was a valuable overview. Nonetheless, some confusions
persist for me since I'm using emacs org-mode and not LyX. Should I be
putting LaTeX markup into my org-mode doc, for instance, for formatting
the title page, &c?
Also, right now when I do the "org to latex to pdf" export, I'm given a
table of contents, and I don't want one. I'm still perplexed about where
defaults like that are kept.
Sometimes I worry that my ignorance is invulnerable.
Thanks again!
-Steven
Alan Tyree <typhoon@aanet.com.au> writes:
> Hi Steven,
> You want to learn more about LaTeX, but it's not too much.
>
> I wrote a little book called Self-publishing with LyX that will help
> you set up the title page as well as some of your other problems. This
> is not a sales pitch -- it's free :-).
>
> Self-publishing with LyX
> ISBN: 978-0-9803-3242-1
> http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
> On 28 May 2014 13:25, Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> wrote:
>
>
> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Igor Sosa Mayor <joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> 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
>
>
> Full disclosure: I'm a beginning emacs user, and I know nothing
> about
> LaTex at all!
>
> I'm not producing a "book" per se, but a manuscript that will be
> printed on 8.5 x 11 pages and read by my agent or a publisher. The
> conventions are simple, but thus far I haven't been able to
> understand
> much of what I'm reading in the customize menu for org-mode.
>
> Until now I've done this formatting with MS Word or Libre Office.
> I
> dislike those programs, but I know how to use them. Simplest has
> been to
> take my raw org-mode txt files and convert them manually. It's a
> tedious
> last step before sending downstream, which I'd love to replace,
> and I've
> seen some beautiful LaTex examples online, so I know it's possible
> ...
>
> Literary format redux:
> + 12 point text
> + Title page has title and author name, centered both horizontally
> and
> vertically. Contact info for agent is in the bottom left, single
> spaced.
> + Remaining pages are double-spaced
> + Page numbers are centered at the bottom of the page (but no page
> number
> on title page)
> + Each page has a right-justified header in the format
> LASTNAME/TITLE
>
> That's it. I guess I'm wondering now--should I be learning more
> about
> org-mode, or more about LaTex?
>
> Thank you very much for taking the time to read all of this.
>
> -Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-28 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 19:49 LaTex export questions Steven Arntson
2014-05-27 21:13 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-05-27 21:42 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-28 1:35 ` Alan L Tyree
2014-05-28 3:25 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 4:31 ` Alan Tyree
2014-05-28 6:07 ` Steven Arntson [this message]
2014-05-28 6:30 ` Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-31 7:25 ` Martin Schöön
2014-06-02 21:07 ` Alan Tyree
2014-05-28 12:39 ` Rick Frankel
2014-05-28 20:48 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 21:51 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-28 22:46 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-28 23:27 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-29 0:22 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-29 1:52 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-27 21:31 ` Charles Millar
2014-05-28 19:48 ` Bastien
2014-05-28 19:51 ` Grant Rettke
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