Re: Custom title page in org-mode

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Steve Prud'Homme <sprudhom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok so i use emacs for school work.
> > I was trying to make a custom title page because, the default latex
> > custom page do not respect my teacher standard
> >
> > So my org-file look like that :
>
>
[...]


> If I were you, what I would do is make my own LaTeX class. Start from
> the one closest to the desired result (probably article), incorporate
> whatever changes you want from report.cls (in particular, the page
> breaks you want), make whatever changes you want to the \title, \author
> etc.  macros, save the result as myarticle.cls in the same directory as
> your org file, and add an entry for it to org-export-latex-classes. Then
> add a
>
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: myarticle
>
>
[...]


> That's all that's needed to produce separate title and TOC pages and
> keep the rest of the article class intact. If you don't like the
> titlepage format, you can modify it to your heart's content: you will
> need to figure out the LaTeX part to do that, but that's not as
> difficult as you might think it is at first sight - and I guarantee that
> you will have an easier time this way than fighting the org latex
> exporter, a fight that you will probably lose :-) IMO, of course.
>
>
I just did this and took a different method. I simply added:

---
#+text: \input{./title.tex}
---

to the beginning of my document. Then I created a separate .tex file with
the title. If something is recurring, maybe it's worth the separate article
class file. If not, I think it *might* be simpler to just define a custom
title page and do as above. I think I just followed this:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation#Custom_Title_Pages

Up to you! I can't guarantee this is right; I'm on a work computer and did
this on my home one.


John





> Nick
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [fn:1] Bastien is right that redefining \baselinestretch is better than
> mucking around with the \baselineskip as I suggested (see
> e.g. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=linespace )
>
> It's probably even better to do it like this however:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace}\doublespacing
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> or
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace}\onehalfspacing
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> or if you don't like the built-in factors, choose your own:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace}\setstretch{1.3}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> BTW, I think the factors are logarithmic: doublespacing is about 1.66
> and onehalfspacing is 1.25 or so (depending on the font size).
>
>

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