On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
>
> #+LATEX_HEADER: does work on export (when else would it work?)
>
> Agreed. If I said otherwise it was a mistake.

2) From Aaron Ecay, put your header in a #+BEGIN_SRC latex section, and
> then run a bit of lisp to export that section, and then include the
> exported file in a #+LATEX_HEADER: \include{preamble}. This is the
> approach I use.
>
> ,----
> | #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> |   (org-babel-goto-named-src-block "preamble")
> |   (org-babel-tangle)
> | #+end_src
> |
> | #+name: preamble
> | #+begin_src latex :tangle preamble.tex
> |   % code goes here
> | #+end_src
> `----
>

This looks handy. Thanks!

My elisp ability is minimal, but if someone can point me towards where I
would look to try to create an export analogue to org-format-latex-header,
I would at least take a look and try to come up with a patch.

Thanks,
Jake