Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

[Joost Kremers]

Hi all,

I've long had this snippet in my Org config:

```
;; Add "colorlinks=true" to hyperref:
(setq org-latex-default-packages-alist '(("AUTO" "inputenc" t
                                          ("pdflatex"))
                                         ("T1" "fontenc" t
                                          ("pdflatex"))
                                         ("" "graphicx" t nil)
                                         ("" "longtable" nil nil)
                                         ("" "wrapfig" nil nil)
                                         ("" "rotating" nil nil)
                                         ("normalem" "ulem" t nil)
                                         ("" "amsmath" t nil)
                                         ("" "amssymb" t nil)
                                         ("" "capt-of" nil nil)
                                         ("colorlinks=true" "hyperref" nil nil)))
```

As the comment says, I modify `org-latex-default-packages-alist` because I
want to change the way hyperref marks hyperlinks. Just now, though I
happened to stumble upon the doc string of
`org-latex-default-packages-alist`, which says that the only reason to
modify this variable is when you load packages that conflict with these.

So that made me wonder; is there a different (better) way of configuring
the packages in `org-latex-default-packages-alist`?

TIA

Joost

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Re: Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

[Ihor Radchenko]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> So that made me wonder; is there a different (better) way of configuring
> the packages in `org-latex-default-packages-alist`?

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#org67ae7f0

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Re: Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

[Joost Kremers]

On Sun, Sep 08 2024, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> So that made me wonder; is there a different (better) way of configuring
>> the packages in `org-latex-default-packages-alist`?
>
> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#org67ae7f0

Thanks, I hadn't thought of checking Worg... This gives me some options.

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Re: Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

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Hi

I' m on Emacs 30.0.90 and using use-package for org (9.7) and other emacs
stock packages.
I add the following in my :custom section

(org-latex-hyperref-template "\\hypersetup{
 colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black,citecolor=black,pagecolor=black,urlcolor=blue,
 pdfborder={0 0 0},
 pdfauthor={%a},
 pdftitle={%t},
 pdfkeywords={%k}, pdfsubject={%d},
 pdfcreator={%c}, pdflang={%L}}
")

instead of touching org-latex-default.packages-alist. Did that before for
specific packages and it was a mess...

Best, /PA
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Re: Customising LaTeX packages in org-latex-default-packages-alist

[Joost Kremers]

On Sat, Sep 07 2024, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez wrote:
> I' m on Emacs 30.0.90 and using use-package for org (9.7) and other emacs
> stock packages.
> I add the following in my :custom section
[...]
> instead of touching org-latex-default.packages-alist. Did that before for
> specific packages and it was a mess...

Thanks, I didn't know about `org-latex-hyperref-template`. For this
particular case, it seems to be the best option.


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