Re: LaTeX export \listoffigures

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

Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiogine@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I am using orgmode with export to LaTeX to write my dissertation.   My
> thanks to all codes and contributors.  Without org-mode it would take
> me even more time.
> 
> I am wondering how to have the LaTeX command \listoffigures
> automatically added by the export function.
> 
> I have the following from the top of the org file:
> 
> #+TAGS: noexport(n) chp(c) sec(s) subsec(b) temp(t) app(a)
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: book
> #+LaTeX_header: \usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
> #+LaTeX_header: \usepackage{appendix}
> #+LANGUAGE: en
> #+DESCRIPTION: Doctoral dissertation at Texas A&M University
> #+TODO: VOID(v) STRT(s) COMP(c) REVD(r) DONE(d)
> #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:nil -:t f:t *:t <:t
> #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:nil pri:nil tags:nil
> #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
> #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
> 
> So, I know how to add packages in the preamble.  However,
> \listoffigures does not go in the preamble but soon after
> \begin{document} and \tableofcontents
> 
> It seems that the "book" LaTeX class automatically adds
> \tableofcontents.  How can I tweak that to add \listoffigures and
> maybe \listoftables ?
> 

No, it's the exporter itself that adds the \tableofcontents - or not:
with

 #+OPTIONS: toc:nil 

\tableofcontents will not be generated.

In any case, in the same way that you can add something to the preamble
with #+LaTeX_header, you can add something to the document with
#+LATEX. The trick is to add it first thing so that it goes right after
the \tableofcontents:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX: \listoffigures

* foo
foo "a b c" bar
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

should work.

Nick