just delete the packages you don't what from (setq org-latex-default-packages-ali st '(("AUTO" "inputenc" t) ("" "lmodern" nil) ("T1" "fontenc" nil) ("" "fixltx2e" nil) ; ("" "charter" nil) ;; a decent font ; ("expert" "mathdesign" nil) ("" "graphicx" t) ("" "longtable" nil) ("" "float" nil) ("" "wrapfig" nil) ("" "rotating" nil) ("normalem" "ulem" t) ("" "amsmath" t) ("" "textcomp" nil) ("" "marvosym" t) ("" "wasysym" t) ("" "amssymb" t) ("" "amsmath" t) ("version=3" "mhchem" t) ("numbers,super,sort&compress" "natbib" t) ("" "natmove" nil) ("" "url" t) ("" "minted" nil) ("" "underscore" t) ("linktocpage,pdfstartview=Fit H,colorlinks, linkcolor=blue,anchorcolor=blue, citecolor=blue,filecolor=blue,menucolor=blue,urlcolor=blue" "hyperref" nil) ("" "attachfile" nil))) John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > hello, > > > On 05/06/14 11:48, John Kitchin wrote: > >> no, I think nil means it is not needed to make latex fragments of >> equations. >> >> John >> > OK, thanks. So, back to my original question: how do I control the list > of packages exported into a LaTeX document? > > Thanks, > Roger >