Re: Collapse LaTeX source before start of main document?

[Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com>]

Hi Matt and Suvayu,

@Matt: I can get your example to work fine for html export, but not
LaTeX export where the entire contents of the headline are removed as
well.  =org-version=:  7.5 (release_7.5.105.g8d0c) if that makes any
difference.

@Suvayu: Thanks for the suggestion.  That is essentially what I am
doing now with the #+LaTeX_HEADER lines, but the problem is that I
have a bunch of things which must follow the \begin{document} in
LaTeX.  I know I could put this in a separate file and just \input{}
it; I wanted to see if there was a way to keep everything together in
a single file, but also have the ability to fold this preliminary
stuff.

Chris

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I just finished writing my master's thesis in org-mode.
>
> On Wed, 4 May 2011 11:36:58 -0400
> Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on using org mode for my PhD thesis.  I'd like to do this
>> in one large file where each headline is a single chapter.  Naturally
>> in a thesis there needs to be a lot of front matter: title page,
>> abstract, signature page, etc.  Right now, I'm doing this with
>> something like:
>
> For all formatting stuff, I just used
>
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \whatever{}
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{universitystyle}
>
> For my abstract I used
>
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \include{abstract}
>
> where abstract.tex is a simple tex file with something like:
>
> \abstract{ My abstract }
>
> If you wish to include this inside the \begin{document}..\end{document}
> block then you can use the same latex snippet but without
> the "#+LaTeX_HEADER:".
>
> I hope this helps and good luck with the thesis. :)
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
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