From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: exporting as latex sections
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 04:38:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=U5LZXbNpUp+Cr3aCgAWr3++WCPqr8Egmv6nNh@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1C27300-D728-40F3-A533-B33494346D64@tsdye.com>
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
> Aloha Suvayu,
>
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:26 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>
>> Hi org-mode users,
>>
>> I have been collaborating on a big (many contributors) paper. For all
>> my various contributions to the paper I need to provide the latex
>> source as a section of a latex document. Is there some way I can
>> export to latex without all the preamble and header information from
>> the org-mode file? Or just exporting to latex and manually removing
>> all that is the only way to do it?
>>
>> While we are at it if I were to attempt to write my own version of
>> latex export function which does this instead, where should I be
>> looking? I'm not very good at lisp, so some suggestions would be
>> really helpful if I need to take this route.
>>
>> Thanks for any help/suggestions.
>>
>> -- Suvayu
>
> I don't know any way to do this with the Org-mode LaTeX exporter (though
> there may be some way I don't know yet).
>
> This might not be an option you want to follow, or something you have
> already thought about, but you could achieve your result using LaTeX source
> code blocks and then tangle, rather than export, your contribution. This
> has the advantage that it is relatively simple to tangle different chunks,
> in case you are contributing to different parts of the paper.
>
> #+source: chunk1
> #+begin_src latex :tangle chunk1.tex
> This is chunk 1.
> #+end_src
>
> #+source: chunk2
> #+begin_src latex :tangle chunk2.tex
> This is chunk 2.
> #+end_src
>
I hadn't thought of org-babel! Thanks a lot, this makes much more sense. :)
> Hope this helps.
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-04 2:26 exporting as latex sections suvayu ali
2010-12-05 1:51 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-12-05 3:38 ` suvayu ali [this message]
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