Re: [PATCH] latex export - title placement

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Sebastian Hofer <sebhofer@gmail.com> wrote:

> At Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:05:28 -0400,
> Nick Dokos wrote:
> > 
> > Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sebastian Hofer <sebhofer@gmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > This patch addresses the problem of ambiguous conventions for the
> > > > placement of the title related macros (\author, \date,...) with
> > > > respect to the main document body in different latex classes. It
> > > > introduces the following changes:
> > > >
> > > > * org-exp.el:
> > > >     - added the following options:
> > > >       - title-position (tpos)
> > > >       - with-title (wtitle)
> > > >       - with-author (wauth)
> > 
> > [This is mostly addressed to Sebastian even though I'm replying to Tom's
> > reply.]
> > 
> > An empty
> > 
> > #+AUTHOR:
> > 
> > disables the insertion of author (assuming that TITLE is not empty -
> > see below.)
> > 
> > 
> > > >       - with-date (wdate)
> > 
> > An empty
> > 
> > #+DATE:
> > 
> > disables the insertion of date (same assumption.)
> > 
> > > >       - with-maketitle (wmtitle)
> > 
> > An empty
> > 
> > #+TITLE:
> > 
> > disables the insertion of \maketitle.
> 
> To be honest, I didn't try setting empty author and date (which of
> course makes sense) I just tried not setting them at all, which gives
> default values. The main reason I submitted this patch, however, is
> having better control of \maketitle. Personally I would like to be
> able to have the title and author at the beginning of the file, just
> for the looks, and still be able to produce a customized title. Of
> course it is highly debatable if this is a sound reason to introduce
> new options (I would argue yes).
> 

Before anybody else wastes their time on this: I'm not sure whether I
was in an alternative universe yesterday, or I am in one today, but
I can't even reproduce my own results. I'll start again and try to get it
right this time, but I'm not going to be able to do that immediately.

Apologies for the confusion.

Nick