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
>
>