From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New Orgmode LaTex Document Class ?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:58:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR03MB5455AF89651DB2B6EE26C570A207A@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1o7jw31uo.fsf@nobis-it.eu> (Stefan Nobis's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:57:19 +0200")
Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> writes:
> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I want to install a resume document class for LaTex
>
> There are the variables org-latex-classes and org-latex-default-class
> on the Org side, but that's only about some structural metadata (how
> to map Org headline levels to LaTeX structure macros).
>
> To find the new class file you have to put it into a folder where
> LaTeX will find it. Org just puts the name of the class into the TeX
> file and everything else is up to LaTeX.
>
> Usually, on Unix systems, there is the optional hierarchy $HOME/texmf
> where you can store you private, local files. It is a good idea to
> mimic the usual TeX directory structure, therefore class and style
> files for LaTeX should go into $HOME/texmf/tex/latex (you may add
> subdirectories there).
>
> Nowadays it should suffice to just drop your class file there and
> everything should work on the LaTeX side.
>
> A quick check whether LaTeX will be able to find the file could be
> done with the tool kpsewhich:
>
> kpsewhich myltxclass.cls
>
> This tool uses the same configuration and search algorithms for the
> files as the TeX engines. So if kpsewhich finds the file, the engines
> should find it too.
>
> One side note: On macOS the default path for the user texmf tree is
> $HOME/Library/texmf. On all systems you may find the correct base
> directory for the user texmf tree with the command
>
> kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
>
> Hope this helps.
Thank you. This is very helpful for a newbie like me. Someone should
probably add something like this in the Org manual to help people begin
the bridge of setup into more advanced LaTex while using Org (maybe it's
there already?).
--
David Masterson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-29 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-28 6:47 New Orgmode LaTex Document Class ? David Masterson
2023-07-28 7:23 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-28 7:57 ` Stefan Nobis
2023-07-29 22:58 ` David Masterson [this message]
2023-07-30 4:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-30 5:02 ` David Masterson
2023-07-30 6:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-30 20:34 ` David Masterson
2023-07-31 7:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-31 7:40 ` Stefan Nobis
2023-07-31 10:23 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-31 22:41 ` David Masterson
2023-08-01 8:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-02 6:28 ` David Masterson
2023-08-02 6:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-02 6:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-02 17:14 ` David Masterson
2023-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH] org-manual: Add references to LaTeX docs (was: New Orgmode LaTex Document Class ?) Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-06 3:35 ` [PATCH] org-manual: Add references to LaTeX docs David Masterson
2023-08-06 8:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-02 7:49 ` New Orgmode LaTex Document Class ? tomas
2023-08-02 16:53 ` David Masterson
2023-08-02 17:29 ` tomas
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