From: Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>
To: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Use nomencl package with latex exporter?
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:26:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A2DC7E28-FE1E-45C8-92C6-FFD73F187651@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx286wva.fsf@ed.ac.uk>
Thank you Myles,
I'm not that comfortable with cmake but I will give your solution a try and report My milage.
/ Johan
Sent from my iPad
On 6 aug 2012, at 14:14, Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Johan Ekh writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I use the default latex exporter in org-mode v7.8 to write documents using
>> a custom latex class which is built on "article".
>> I would like to use the "nomencl" latex package if possible.
>
>> From the shell I usually run something like
>>
>> makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
>>
>> followed by latex or pdflatex, but how can I get the exporter to do
>> this?
>
> I don't know the answer to your question, but when I came across the
> same problem, I used a makefile-like solution because I felt that the
> building process was becoming sufficiently complicated to warrant using
> a specialised tool. If you are comfortable with CMake already it may be
> worth a look. Have a look for "UseLatex.cmake".
>
> Basically you get emacs to export the .tex file from the .org file:
>
> add_custom_command(
> OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.tex
> COMMAND emacs --batch
> --visit=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.org
> --load=/home/me/myfuncs.el
> --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch
> DEPENDS orgfile
> COMMENT "Exporting orgmode file to LaTeX using emacs"
> )
>
> And then bibtex and nomenclature are asked to do their stuff, and a pdf
> is produced, with something like this directive:
>
> add_latex_document( mypaper.tex
> INPUTS tex/bibliography.tex
> texlib/mystyle.sty
> BIBFILES texlib/mylibrary.bib
> DEFAULT_PDF
> USE_NOMENCL
> )
>
> I also get it to generate all my R plots. Other advantages are that you
> get an out-of-source build that is isolated (to some extent) in its own
> directory. And I think it is easier to diagnose the problems when
> things go wrong, better than staring at an elisp backtrace. Now if org
> would write my CMakeList.txt for me, that would be a fine thing.
>
> Myles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-06 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-06 9:24 Use nomencl package with latex exporter? Johan Ekh
2012-08-06 12:14 ` Myles English
2012-08-06 19:26 ` Johan Ekh [this message]
2012-08-06 19:35 ` Nick Dokos
2012-08-08 6:40 ` Johan Ekh
2012-08-08 8:05 ` Andrew Young
2012-08-08 16:24 ` Nick Dokos
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