Re: Use nomencl package with latex exporter?

[Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>]

Thank you Myles,
I'm not that comfortable with cmake but I will give your solution a try and report My milage.

/ Johan

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On 6 aug 2012, at 14:14, Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Johan Ekh writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I use the default latex exporter in org-mode v7.8 to write documents using
>> a custom latex class which is built on "article".
>> I would like to use the "nomencl" latex package if possible.
> 
>> From the shell I usually run something like
>> 
>> makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
>> 
>> followed by latex or pdflatex, but how can I get the exporter to do
>> this?
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question, but when I came across the
> same problem, I used a makefile-like solution because I felt that the
> building process was becoming sufficiently complicated to warrant using
> a specialised tool.  If you are comfortable with CMake already it may be
> worth a look.  Have a look for "UseLatex.cmake".
> 
> Basically you get emacs to export the .tex file from the .org file:
> 
> add_custom_command(
>  OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.tex
>  COMMAND emacs --batch
>    --visit=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.org
>    --load=/home/me/myfuncs.el
>    --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch
>  DEPENDS orgfile
>  COMMENT "Exporting orgmode file to LaTeX using emacs"
>  )
> 
> And then bibtex and nomenclature are asked to do their stuff, and a pdf
> is produced, with something like this directive:
> 
> add_latex_document( mypaper.tex
>  INPUTS tex/bibliography.tex
>         texlib/mystyle.sty
>  BIBFILES texlib/mylibrary.bib
>  DEFAULT_PDF
>  USE_NOMENCL
> )
> 
> I also get it to generate all my R plots.  Other advantages are that you
> get an out-of-source build that is isolated (to some extent) in its own
> directory.  And I think it is easier to diagnose the problems when
> things go wrong, better than staring at an elisp backtrace.  Now if org
> would write my CMakeList.txt for me, that would be a fine thing.
> 
> Myles