Re: "No definition for class" error in export to latex

["Levy, Roger" <rlevy@ucsd.edu>]

On Jun 11, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> and no .tex file output.  From within Aquamacs, I don't get this error, pre=
>> sumably because I have the following in my .emacs file:
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
>> 	     '("apa"
>> 	       "\\documentclass{apa}
>>               [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
>>               \\usepackage{graphicx}
>>               \\usepackage{apacite}"
>> 	       ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>> 	       ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>> 	       ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
>> ))
>> 
>> How can I make this modification of org-export-latex-classes from the comma=
>> nd line?  I have tried putting the above content in a file ("$HOME/tmp/add.=
>> el") and making the call
>> 
>> /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs -batch \
>>    --load $HOME/tmp/add.el \
>>    --visit=3Dtest-file.org \
>>    --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch
>> 
>> but this gives me the error
>> 
>>  Symbol's value as variable is void: org-export-latex-classes
>> 
>> I would be very grateful for any suggestions!  This is GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (Aq=
>> uamacs 2.2) and Org mode 7.5.
> 
> You should add to add.el some more initialization: you probably need to
> set the load-path and require the org-latex package - something like
> this, but you should more or less mimic the way you initialize org mode
> in your .emacs:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp")) ;maybe
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
> (require 'org-install) ; maybe
> 
> (require 'org-latex)
> ...apa stuff from above...
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Remember: -batch implies -q so your .emacs file is completely ignored:
> you have to do any initialization you need in the add.el file.

Many thanks, Nick.  I have managed to get things to work with the following add.el file contents:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq load-path (cons "/Users/rlevy/tmp/org-7.5/contrib/lisp" load-path))
(setq load-path (cons "/Users/rlevy/tmp/org-7.5/lisp" load-path))
(require 'org-install)
(require 'org-latex)
(require 'org-exp-bibtex)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
(add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
	     '("apa"
	       "\\documentclass{apa}
               [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
               \\usepackage{graphicx}
               \\usepackage{apacite}"
	       ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
	       ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
	       ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
))
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

Probably some of that may be unnecessary too, but (require 'org-latex) was definitely needed.


> 
>> Incidentally, trying to export to HTML with
>> 
>> /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs -batch \
>>    --visit=3Dtest-file.org \
>>    --funcall org-export-as-html-batch
>> 
>> complains differently:=20
>> 
>> OVERVIEW
>> Exporting...
>> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "html-he=
>> lper-mode")
>> Exporting...
>> Exporting...
>> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "html-he=
>> lper-mode")
> 
> I don't know who tries to load html-helper-mode but that's not even
> present in my setup.
> 
>> Saving file /tmp/test-file.html...
>> Wrote /tmp/test-file.html
>> HTML export done, pushed to kill ring and clipboard
>> 
>> but it actually does produce a sensible html file.
>> 
> 
> Probably because the autoload for org-export-as-html-batch is
> in the default path of your emacs.

OK -- I will not worry about this for now.

Thanks again.

Best

Roger