Re: pretty export of tags

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pretty export of tags
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
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On May 31, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Scot Becker wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:56 PM, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I would like some more control over how tags are exported to PDF. I
>> tried both latex and docbook based methods, and as far as I can  
>> tell, in
>> both cases the treatment is hard-coded (at least in the docbook  
>> case it
>> does mark them as being different from the headline).  Is there some
>> existing trick I should know about?  I'd like the tags e.g. right
>> justified, or on the next line in a box.  The HTML treatment is  
>> almost
>> OK.
>
> David,
>
> I could have sworn I was looking at the relevant variable this
> morning, but I can't find it.  (I was looking at
> org-export-latex-todo-keyword-markup, but that's of course for TODO
> words).  It looks to me like tag markup is hard-coded for LaTeX
> export, as a simple substitution in the function
> 'org-export-latex-keywords-maybe.
>
> I, too, would be glad to do some tricks on tags for LaTeX output.
> Would it add to the complexity too much to expand the capabilities of
> org-export-latex-classes, so that in the lines where you define the
> header markup for each class, you can also define tag markup?
>
> So in the following, %s is just the text of the header and %t is a
> (comma-separated, for possible use as LaTeX arguements?) tag list:
>
> '(("mynewclass"
>     "\\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}"
>     ("\\section{%s}\n\taglist{%t}" . "\\section*{%s}\n\taglist{%t}")
>     ("\\subsection{%s}\n\taglist{%t}" . "\\subsection*{%s}\n 
> \taglist{%t}")
>   ... and so on.
>
> The above example would produce LaTeX code like this:
>
> \section{This is a Title Here}
> \taglist{tag1,tag2,tag3}
> Section text goes here.
>
> I would then define \taglist{} in my header as a custom latex command
> which does the formatting I want on the tags.

Would it not be more consistent if I just make the command for the  
taglist
be specified in a variable, similar to org-export-latex-todo-keyword- 
markup.
This seems the more logical solution to me.  You could still use a non- 
existing command and define it in the header....

>
> Presumably I could also add whatever formatting I want around %t ---at
> least whatever formatting LaTeX supports.  David, you might want to
> assure yourself that LaTeX is capable of producing the results you
> want.  I'm weak on the specifics, but there is some trouble putting
> certain kinds of commands in LaTeX header lines.
>
> It may be that in time, org-export-generic will grow into a tool that
> can be made to produce a decent LaTeX exporter, (and might now for
> certain well-structured and not-too-demanding kinds of documents), but
> I suspect that time quite yet.
>
> I'd be glad to hear of any other solutions or hacks.
>
> Scot
>
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- Carsten