Re: letterhead and signature in odt export

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:41 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've never delved into the XML nightmare that is ODT and stick with
>> latex/PDF export.
>>
>> Here is how I handled needing to have a logo and banner at the top of my
>> documents. Essentially, it involves using the Latex 'minipage'
>> environment to setup the layout and the xcolor package to handle
>> colours. Getting it working is somewhat trial and error, but once you
>> have it, it is pretty much set and forget.
>>
>> The below is an early version. I later refined it and put it into my
>> org-latex-classes variable, but removed it when I left the University
>> for a new employer. It should be fairly straight-forward to adapt to a
>> letter head. The only challenge will be if your Uni Marketing/PR are
>> very rigid re: format. In particular, fonts can be a challenge if they
>> have selected something unusual.
>>
>
> whew, OK, this is interesting. I guess you have written your own class
> somewhere, is that right? And even though your header is defined in
> latex_header it still somehow is included inside of \begin{document}?
>

Essentially, yes. I defined a new org-latex-class where all the
LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA lines below were put into the [EXTRA] section of the
org-latex-class definition. I then only needed to add the LATEX_CLASS
header line in my document and all would work. Note that there is an
order to how the elements in org-latex-class are processed and you do
have to get that correct - for example,  the LATEX_HEADER line needs to
go into the [PACKAGES] section and the rest in the [EXTRA] section to
ensure things are put in the right order. 

It will likely take some trial and error to get things correct and it
can be a little fragile i.e. if you had a long title/heading/author etc,
things may not wrap/align correctly. I'm sure someone with even more
Latex experience could do a better definition, but I found it worked
really well for me.

My suggestion would be to use a org template/skeleton file initially so
that it is easier to tweak and then once you have it nailed down, look
at defining a new org-latex-class entry.

I do recall it took me a few goes to really understand the
org-latex-class definition - but that could just be me being a bit slow!

> ... and if I turn this into an org latex class, then am I right that I an
> simply set that latex_class header at the top of a document and all of this
> will be handled for me autmagically on export? That would be fantastic.
>


> Gonna follow up some more in response to ckelty, whose stuff I've been
> working with thus far.
>
>>
>> #+TITLE: XXXXXXXXX
>> #+AUTHOR: XXXXXXX
>> #+DATE: \today
>> #+SUBTITLE: IAM Use Case
>> #+OPTIONS: ^:nil num:nil toc:nil tags:nil |:t
>> #+LATEX_CLASS: une-article
>> #+LATEX-OPTIONS: 12pt,a4paper
>> #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{xcolor}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \definecolor{unegreen}{HTML}{7AB800}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \definecolor{Black}{HTML}{000000}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \definecolor{White}{HTML}{FFFFFF}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \definecolor{dimgrey}{HTML}{696969}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \makeatletter
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \def\@maketitle{
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:  \noindent \begin{minipage}[c][4cm][t]{\linewidth}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:    \colorbox{Black}{%
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:      \begin{minipage}[t][4cm][c]{4cm}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:      \flushleft
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:      \includegraphics{~/Pictures/unelogo_medium.png}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:    \end{minipage}}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:    \colorbox{unegreen}{%
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:      \begin{minipage}[t][4cm][c]{10cm}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:        \flushright
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:        \Large \textbf{\color{White}{\@title}} \\
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:         \vspace{4pt}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:        \small \color{White}{\@author} \\
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:        \small \color{White}{\@date}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:      \end{minipage}}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA:    \end{minipage}}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \makeatother
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Filipovits <jrfilipovits@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Would you mind sharing them? This is a problem I am trying to figure out
>> as
>> > well.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 9:29 AM Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Matt,
>> >>
>> >> I've replied directly to you with some files.
>> >> --
>> >> Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.13-783-g97fac4
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim Cross
>>


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Tim Cross