Re: Using Org for a dissertation - appendices

[Tim Burt <tcburt@rochester.rr.com>]

Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiogine@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> 2012/5/12 Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>:
>> (Henri-Paul, do you still read this list?)
>
> Yes, I do.  Still using orgmode each day.
>
> I do not have anything fancy going on and actually would like to know
> how to set up appendices for LaTeX export.
>
> I have the following outline:
>
> * Review of Literature
> * Methodology
> * Findings
> * Discussion
> * Conclusion
> * Footnotes
> * References
> * Appendices
> ** Appendix A
> ** Appendix B
> ** Appendix C
>
> The LaTeX export of course does not know the that last chapter should
> contain the appendices.  I have tried to insert several LaTeX commands
> in the orgmode file, but I could not make it work.

Use the \appendix command to turn on alphabetic numbering.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion?

If you want the last three headlines to each have a different letter,
then you make them top-level headlines instead of children: 

* References
\appendix
* Appendix A
* Appendix B
* Appendix C


>
> Thanks,
> Henri-Paul

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