Re: XeLaTeX and the new exporter

[Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au>]

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Sure, I'll give it a try, but I might not get around to it for a few days.

Cheers,
Chris.


On 1 June 2013 08:43, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>
> Would you like to provide a patch?
>
> - Carsten
>
> On 31.5.2013, at 09:58, Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> wrote:
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> I'm not entirely sure either, I pretty much just blindly followed the
> instructions on the FAQ.  I don't think this is at all the minimum you need
> to get xelatex working, it also sets up a few other things.  For instance
> it used latexmk instead of just recompiling a few times.  Perhaps the FAQ
> should be split up into a few different questions:
> 1. minimum setup for XeLaTeX, something similar to your setup
> 2. how to use latexmk
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 22 May 2013 19:07, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:42:04PM +0200, Christopher Witte wrote:
>> >
>> > I had export working using XeLaTeX using the instructions from the
>> > FAQ<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#using-xelatex-for-pdf-export
>> >(with
>> > some slight modifications), but after upgrading to the new export it
>> > isn't working.  It appears the hook
>> > org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook isn't defined anymore.
>> >
>> > Any advice on what I need to change to get it to work?
>>
>> I have noticed discussions on this before and I fail to understand the
>> need for all the setup mentioned in the above Worg entry.  I use XeLaTeX
>> almost exclusively, and all I have is something like this:
>>
>>   ;;; XeLaTeX customisations
>>   ;; remove "inputenc" from default packages as it clashes with xelatex
>>   (setf org-latex-default-packages-alist
>>         (remove '("AUTO" "inputenc" t) org-latex-default-packages-alist))
>>
>>   (add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "xltxtra" t))
>>   ;; choose Linux Libertine O as serif and Linux Biolinum O as sans-serif
>> fonts
>>   (add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist '("" "libertineotf" t))
>>
>>   ;; org to latex customisations, -shell-escape needed for minted
>>   (setq org-export-dispatch-use-expert-ui t ; non-intrusive export
>> dispatch
>>         org-latex-pdf-process               ; for regular export
>>         '("xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode
>> -output-directory %o %f"
>>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode
>> -output-directory %o %f"
>>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode
>> -output-directory %o %f"))
>>
>> For beamer export I add this line:
>>
>>   #+LaTeX_HEADER: \setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O}
>>
>> So far I have not encountered any problems.  Although I have to say, I
>> do not use unicode in mathmode.
>>
>> I am curious to know why others need all this elaborate setup to use
>> XeLaTeX.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Suvayu
>>
>> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>>
>>
>
>

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