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.p= hp 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=3D\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@ \311=3D\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

=