On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >     That's all that's needed to produce separate title and TOC pages and
> >     keep the rest of the article class intact. If you don't like the
> >     titlepage format, you can modify it to your heart's content: you will
> >     need to figure out the LaTeX part to do that, but that's not as
> >     difficult as you might think it is at first sight - and I guarantee
> that
> >     you will have an easier time this way than fighting the org latex
> >     exporter, a fight that you will probably lose :-) IMO, of course.
> >
> > I just did this and took a different method. I simply added:
> >
> > ---
> > #+text: \input{./title.tex}
> > ---
> >
> > to the beginning of my document. Then I created a separate .tex file
> > with the title. If something is recurring, maybe it's worth the
> > separate article class file. If not, I think it *might* be simpler to
> > just define a custom title page and do as above. I think I just
> > followed
> > this:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation#Custom_Title_Pages
> >
> > Up to you! I can't guarantee this is right; I'm on a work computer and
> did this on my home one.
> >
>
> ... but you have to do something (or perhaps *not* do something) in order
> to convince
> the org latex exporter not to produce a title page, right? Is it something
> simple
> like omitting #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR?
>
>
Good point. Yes. Now that I'm back at home I looked at the document and the
header stuff in the document in which I used this technique is:
----
#+OPTIONS:   toc:nil TeX:t LaTeX:t H:4 f:t todo:nil num:nil tags:nil
#+BIND: org-export-latex-title-command ""
#+text: \input{./title-page.tex}

* first headline
----

Neat tip about just doing "#+title: "; hadn't realized a blank would do the
same as the bind entry!

John




> Nick
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