Aloha Chris,

Thanks for pointing out the bug in the tutorial.  I've pushed up a  
change to Worg.

I don't know if you've seen my attempt to make a custom LaTeX article  
class for org-mode export, but it might have something useful to you.   
It is here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/article-class.php

All the best,
Tom

On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Chris Malone wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> That fixed it - I figured it was something simple.  Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:11 AM, chris.m.malone@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a n00b to Lisp and org-mode so please forgive me if the answer  
> is obvious. I'm using version 7.01h of org-mode.
>
> I'm trying to set up a custom Latex class to use for preparing a  
> document. Some Google searching showed that I need to add this class  
> to the org-export-latex-classes symbol. I tried to do this in  
> my .emacs file, for example following what is listed at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.php 
>  by adding the following to my .emacs file:
>
> (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
> '("article"
> "\\documentclass{article}"
> ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")))
>
>
> I know that org-export-latex-default-class is already set to  
> "article" but this example already shows that something is wrong.  
> When I load emacs the debugger complains that org-export-latex- 
> classes is an empty list:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-export-latex-classes)
> add-to-list(org-export-latex-classes ("article" "\ 
> \documentclass{article}" ("$
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/cmalone/.emacs" nil t) ;  
> Reading at$
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/cmalone/.emacs" "/home/ 
> cmalone/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
> #[nil "^H\205\276^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@ \311=\2033^@ 
> \312\307\31$
> command-line()
> normal-top-level()
>
> As far as I can tell, org-export-latex-classes is set to nil in org- 
> latex.el, but this isn't loaded until the export dispatcher calls  
> org-export-as-latex. Is this correct? Coincidentally, if I export to  
> latex, the appropriate .tex file is created without issue.
>
> My original goal was to setup a custom Latex class - I have tried in  
> the same manner as that used above for the "article" class and the  
> debugger produces the same result. However, when I attempt to export  
> to latex I get the error that my custom class isn't in the org- 
> export-latex-classes list, presumably because of the failure in  
> loading the .emacs file.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Chris_______________________________________________
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> My tutorial might have been over-optimistic about the ease of  
> configuration.  Perhaps you also need this in your .emacs before you  
> add-to-list:
>
>  (require 'org-latex)
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
>