Thanks Christian for the pointer,

But I already have,

 (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>                `("kaobook"
>                  ,(string-join
>                    '("\\documentclass{kaobook}"
>                      "\\usepackage{color}"
>                      "\\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}")
>                    "\n")
>                  ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
>                  ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>                  ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>                  ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
>                  ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
>

yet `C-c C-e l o` fails to produce pdf.

Cheers,

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 1:55 PM Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> For starters, have you added the kaobook document class to the variable
> org-latex-classes? (If yes, ignore the rest of this message, if not, do
> so and see what happens.)
>
> This is needed to tell Org how to set the document class and what commands
> are used for sections. See the manual 13.10.2 and 13.10.3,
> [[info:org#LaTeX specific export settings]] and [[info:org#LaTeX header
> and sectioning]], and look up the docstring for org-latex-classes if you
> need help.
>
> E.g., in .emacs I have this for Tufte-Latex:
>
> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>              '("tufte-handout"
> "\\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{tufte-handout}"
>                ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>                ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")))
>
> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>              '("tufte-book"
> "\\documentclass[11pt,a5paper,nols]{tufte-book}"
>                ("\\part{%s}" . "\\part*{%s}")
>                ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>                ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>                ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")))
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
>
> Zenny writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > References of interest:
> > 1. https://github.com/fmarotta/kaobook
> > 2. https://github.com/asilata/emacsconf2021
> >
> > Can anyone guide me how to get a self-contained and portable template
> that
> > executes kaobook tex templates (see 1) to create an org-file that
> resembles
> > with the instance in 2 above?
> >
> > I tried the best I can by adding the kaobook.cls and kaobook.sty files
> > inside `~/texmf/tex/latex/kaobook/` folder and specified 'kaobook' in the
> > `#+latex_class: kaobook` but it failed to produce the desired look of pdf
> > similar to
> >
> https://github.com/fmarotta/kaobook/blob/master/example_and_documentation.pdf
> > withing the same examples directory!
> >
> > Any input appreciated!
> >
> > Cheers and have a nice week,
> > /z
>
>

-- 
Cheers,
/z

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