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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 Sep 2015 at 18:59, Sebastian Boehm wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On 21 September 2015 at 21:46, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>>> But can't users needing a non-default class customize their
>>> own `org-latex-classes? Or is there an entitling reason to offer it out
>>> of the box?
>>
>> you are of course right; users can always customise their own setup.
>> However, when sharing Org files with other people this kind of tight
>> coupling between the Org file and the user's Emacs configuration can
>> become quite problematic.
>
> Yes, this is a real problem.
>
> One solution, but not an ideal one, is to use file local variables to
> define org-latex-classes (and any other variables) as appropriate for
> the document.  It's not ideal because unfortunately most of org's
> variables (as well as many of emacs's own) are "global" and hence affect
> the functionality of org visiting other buffers.  I find myself having
> separate emacs instances for some org files for this reason.

Doesn't "setq-local" solve this problem?

>
> I had thought that maybe using #+bind: would solve this problem but the
> export engine looks for the LaTeX class before binding takes effect.
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-270-g256fef
>