Re: fullpage.sty replacement [WAS: Problem with LaTeX snippets preview]

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Tim,

I have applied your patch, thanks.

The header for the LaTeX files used to produce PDF export independent
from this.  The stuff here is only used to create small images that
will be displayed in Emacs or used in HTML export.

- Carsten

On Sep 26, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Tim Burt wrote:

>
> In another thread there was a discussion about replacing the
> use of fullpage.sty with its functionality.
> NickD> Looks like the culprit is fullpage.sty - seems to be required
> NickD> by the LaTeX code that org-preview-latex-fragment generates.
>
> CarstenD> I believe the reason that this is used it to make sure that
> CarstenD> wide formulas can still be formatted reasonably well,
> CarstenD> without additional line breaks.  I guess we could inline
> CarstenD> the content of this small package.
> CarstenD>
> CarstenD> Would somebody like to try to replace this with just the
> CarstenD> margin setting commands of fullpage.sty?
> With continued thanks to Patrick Daly, the author of fullpage.sty and
> my favorite LaTeX book "A Guide to LaTeX2e", I put the margin and text
> size settings accomplished by fullpage.sty in org-format-latex-header
> of org.el.
> Org-mode version 6.30trans (release_6.30d.882.gdbd63.dirty)
> The diff below is offered as a step towards inlining the
> functionality.
>
> The caveats:
> 1. This is untested
>   - When I execute org-export-as-pdf some other header appears in
>     the .tex file, and I have not yet discovered the source of this
>     other header.
> 2. This is the first time I've done a git diff.
>
> If there are troubles in testing I will be happy to help resolve.
>
> Good morning,
> Tim
>
> Output of git diff org.el:
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 89d3bc8..8772968 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -2678,13 +2678,24 @@ This is a property list with the following  
> properties:
>  :type 'plist)
>
> (defcustom org-format-latex-header "\\documentclass{article}
> -\\usepackage{fullpage}         % do not remove
> \\usepackage{amssymb}
> \\usepackage[usenames]{color}
> \\usepackage{amsmath}
> \\usepackage{latexsym}
> \\usepackage[mathscr]{eucal}
> -\\pagestyle{empty}             % do not remove"
> +\\pagestyle{empty}             % do not remove
> +\\setlength{\\textwidth}{\\paperwidth}
> +\\addtolength{\\textwidth}{-3cm}
> +\\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{1.5cm}
> +\\addtolength{\\oddsidemargin}{-2.54cm}
> +\\setlength{\\evensidemargin}{\\oddsidemargin}
> +\\setlength{\\textheight}{\\paperheight}
> +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\headheight}
> +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\headsep}
> +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-\\footskip}
> +\\addtolength{\\textheight}{-3cm}
> +\\setlength{\\topmargin}{1.5cm}
> +\\addtolength{\\topmargin}{-2.54cm}"
>  "The document header used for processing LaTeX fragments."
>  :group 'org-latex
>  :type 'string)
>
>
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