Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Is this already fixed, or still an open issue?

Thanks.

- Carsten

On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Mark Elston wrote:

> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I have a standard format I like to use in creating some class notes
>>> in latex.  I use memoir and have a boilerplate that only differs
>>> in the title from notes to notes.  I have decided to try to manage
>>> my documentation for my notes in org to see if it is easier to do.
>>> Mostly (so far) it is a pretty good match.
>>>
>>> However, I have run into a snag for exporting the notes to latex.
>>> I tried using the #+TITLE: directive but got page numbers (in roman)
>>> on the first couple of pages.  This looked ugly.
>> Can you post the tex file that is produced with the TITLE  
>> directive? I
>> don't understand why/how roman page numbers are produced (but I don't
>> know memoir well).
>
> Actually, part of the boilerplate includes a \pagenumbering{roman}
> *after* the titlingpage environment.  This is probably what caused it.
> After all my remaining boilerplate (including a Preface section) I
> insert a \pagenumbering{arabic} and this restarts the page numbers
> from 1.
>
>>> So I set the#+TITLE: directive to be empty and added to the # 
>>> +TEXT: block
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> #+TEXT: \title{ABC Class Notes}
>>> #+TEXT: \begin{titlingpage}
>>> #+TEXT: \maketitle
>>> #+TEXT: \end{titlingpage}
>>>
>>> This almost works.  The problem is the first of these lines gets
>>> exported with the closing '}' escaped.  In other words it comes
>>> out as:
>>>
>>> \title{ABC Class Notes\}
>>>
>>> I am not sure why this is or what to do about it.
>> This is probably a bug - Carsten has fixed a number of instances
>> of such escaped braces I believe.
>
> Should I submit a bug report?  As I was working with this another
> piece of boilerplate I had (and removed) was:
>
> #+TEXT: \shorttableofcontents{Sessions}{0}
>
> which resulted in:
>
> \shorttableofcontents{Sessions}{0\}
>
> I don't have to have the short table of contents so I removed it
> but it is another such escaped backslash.
>
>>> BTW, I had to set the TITLE directive to empty since just having it
>>> resulted in an automatic \maketitle export which was not surrounded
>>> by the titlingpage environment.  I really wanted that titlingpage
>>> environment and I couldn't think of another way of  handling it.
>>>
>> You can perhaps redefine org-export-latex-title-command:
>> (setq org-export-latex-title-command "\\begin{titlingpage}\n\ 
>> \maketitle\n\\end{titlingpage}")
>> and try using the TITLE directive again.
>
> Can I set this on a case-by-case basis?  Not all my documents use
> memoir.  I think the titlingpage environment is memoir-specific.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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- Carsten