Hi Suvayu, Do you use the lastest update of org-mode ? cause it works perfectly for me without any patch actually... The following org : #+begin_org #+TITLE: My title #+AUTHOR: Camille Persson #+DATE: 2011 #+LATEX_CLASS: book #+end_org ... produce the following latex code: #+begin_latex \documentclass[11pt,letter]{book} %% package list %% .... \title{My title} \author{Camille Persson} \date{2011} \begin{document} \maketitle %.... etc #+end_latex to use your university's custom style, you need to put it in your texmf directory and use the following header lines: #+LATEX_CLASS: MyUnivThesis #+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [options...] and then customize your .emacs file (or a file in your .emacs.d/) as following (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes '("MyUnivThesis" "\\documentclass{univstyle}" ("\\part{%s}" . "\\part*{%s}") ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}") ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}") ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}") ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")) See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-6 Yours, CP 2011/3/4 Suvayu Ali > Hi Lawrence, > > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:38:08 +0000 > Lawrence Mitchell wrote: > > > Try this patch to org-latex.el: > > > > diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el > > index 19baa40..4db38d6 100644 > > --- a/lisp/org-latex.el > > +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el > > That does the trick. :) Thanks a lot. > > I am not very familiar with LaTeX, is the org default the proper syntax > and my university style is buggy? > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > >