Many thanks Eric for this email and the attachment.

Of course it is very useful.

2014-08-05 2:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>:

> Hi List,
>
> I thoroughly enjoyed using Org-mode to write my dissertation.  I was
> happy to be able to export (mostly) equivalent versions of the document
> to HTML and PDF.  I'd recommend using Org-mode for such a complex
> writing task to those who are either willing to hack the exporter, or
> are willing to accept an Org-mode document with inline LaTeX which only
> /really/ works with the LaTeX backend.
>
> As I fall in the former category, here are the small extensions to the
> Org-mode exporter which I found necessary.  Thanks to the new exporting
> backend they were uniformly easy to implement.  They are included in the
> attached elisp file.  Each pagefeed (^L) in the file marks a new section
> of functionality, the sections are as follows...
>
>  1. Ignore Headlines and keep content (discussed here recently)
>  2. Multi-column Table Cells
>  3. Wide tables extend into the margins.
>  4. Wide tables squeezed within the margins
>  5. "sc" links for the \sc{} latex command
>  6. "gls" links for the \gls{} family of Glossary commands
>  7. color links
>  8. TIKZ figure links
>  9. Tie certain latex commands to the preceding word.
> 10. Fix emphasis in text export
>
> A simplified version of my Makefile is also attached.  I hope someone
> finds this useful.
>
> Best,
> Eric
>

Can you tell us how using the Makefile in order to test all these functions
for a dissertation? I am  especially interested by points 2 and 8.

Best wishes ,

Jo.