Re: latex export beginner

[Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>> I'm taking my first baby steps at exporting an org file to LaTex. I know
>> a little about org-mode, and almost nothing about LaTex.
>>
>> I type C-c C-e l o
>>
>> A file named file.tex is produced, but the process halts with an error:
>>
>> org-latex-compile: PDF file ./plm.pdf wasn't produced: [LaTeX error] 
>>
>> A program called pdfTex produces a buffer with extensive output,
>> including:
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> This seems like some markup that should probably be included in my file
>> automatically as part of the export? Shoud I add "/begin{document}" to
>> my org doc?
>>
>
> No, the exporter should have done that. Post your org file and the
> resulting tex file.
>
> Also, the version of your org mode: C-u M-x org-version will insert
> it in the current buffer.

Thank you for your help!

I'm using Org-mode version 8.2.6 (8.2.6-22-gb11b4a-elpaplus @
/home/steven/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140519/)

I mocked up a smaller reproduction of the problem, because the original
file is too large. The same errors were produced. There's a file called
test.log, too, which I'm not pasting in here because of its length, but
I can if it would be helpful. Here's my org-mode document:

| Test org file for conversion to LaTex
|  
| * My top-level header
| Some information under the top level header
| ** A secondary header
|  
| * Chapter the first
| Some information from the first chapter.Some
| information from the first Some information from the first chapter.Some
| information from the first chapter.Some information from the first
| chapter.
|  
| * Chapter the second
| The end of this document.

And here is the tex output file:

| % Created 2014-05-21 Wed 09:11
| \documentclass[11pt]{article}
| \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
| \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
| \usepackage{fixltx2e}
| \usepackage{graphicx}
| \usepackage{longtable}
| \usepackage{float}
| \usepackage{wrapfig}
| \usepackage{rotating}
| \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
| \usepackage{amsmath}
| \usepackage{textcomp}
| \usepackage{marvosym}
| \usepackage{wasysym}
| \usepackage{amssymb}
| \usepackage{hyperref}
| \tolerance=1000
| \author{Steven Arntson}
| \date{\today}
| \title{test}
| \hypersetup{
|   pdfkeywords={},
|   pdfsubject={},
|   pdfcreator={Emacs 24.3.1 (Org mode 8.2.6)}}
| \begin{document}
|  
| \maketitle
| \tableofcontents
|  
| Test org file for conversion to LaTex
|  
| \section{My top-level header}
| \label{sec-1}
| Some information under the top level header
| \subsection{A secondary header}
| \label{sec-1-1}
|  
| \section{Chapter the first} \label{sec-2}
| Some information from the
| first chapter.Some information from the first Some information from the
| first chapter.Some information from the first chapter.Some information
| from the first chapter.
|  
| \section{Chapter the second}
| \label{sec-3}
| The end of this document.
| % Emacs 24.3.1 (Org mode 8.2.6)
| \end{document}