Aloha Carsten,
Much appreciated. I hope the idea of custom LaTeX classes for Org-
mode export proves useful to the community.
I have the patch on my list of things to do. I don't work at the
speeds you folks attain so the patch will probably seem slow in coming.
All the best,
Tom
On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
Hi Tom,
On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Aloha Carsten,
Thanks for your kind words. I'm having fun with org-article.cls
and am happy to have Org support in the ways that you mention.
Great. Would you like to make me a patch which does all this?
If you want, you can also create a new directory in contrib.
You can also have write permission for the git repo in order
to install updates for this.
Right now I think the class's main contribution is that it eases
configuration of LaTeX export.
For the future (perhaps distant), I'm hoping org-article.cls will
make the case that Org should identify other semantic elements in
LaTeX export, leaving the details of their representation to the
LaTeX class.
For example:
paths: Paths are frequently quite long and when they don't include
spaces LaTeX can have a difficult time breaking them at the end of
a line. There is a LaTeX package, url.sty, that handles this. I
believe that the hyperref package loads url.sty for this
functionality, so it is available to the LaTeX exporter with the
current defaults. If paths were identified in the export,
e.g., \org-path{/long/path/to/my/file/deep/in/the/directory/tree},
then the LaTeX class could typeset this with either the \url{}
command (if hyperref wasn't being used), with \nolinkurl{} (if
hyperref was being used), or some other way appropriate to the class.
lists: In addition to compact lists (I agree with you that they are
an improvement over the standard LaTeX lists), it should be
possible to typeset lists inside paragraphs. I'm not certain how
this might be handled in Org-mode, perhaps an #+property or other
entity that could be set on a list-specific basis. The LaTeX
paralist package that is responsible for the compact lists does a
good job typesetting lists in paragraphs, as well.
#+results: I'm integrating Eric Fraga's GANTT chart code, which
generates the LaTeX code to create a high quality graphic using an
Org-mode table as input. Currently, the #+results: of Eric's code
aren't exported unless I add a blank line between the #+results:
and #+BEGIN_LaTeX lines. If, instead, the results block were
exported inside a LaTeX environment, say \begin{org-results}
\end{org-results}, then org-article.cls (or any other LaTeX class)
could define an environment to typeset the results appropriately.
With the blank line inserted, LaTeX export yields a listing of the
LaTeX code, which is all well and good, but it doesn't get set off
*as a result*, which might be useful to distinguish it from regular
source code blocks in the Org-mode file.
I'm not advocating for any specific changes here. I'm just trying
to indicate a possibly useful development path for Org-mode LaTeX
export in tandem with custom LaTeX classes.
I will be very interested to see what else you come up with.
Cheers
- Carsten
All the best,
Tom
On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Dan just made me look again at this thread, which I had not yet
studied closely.
I think you have created something very useful indeed. I love
the compact lists, and I am sure there is a lot more I would use.
So I am wondering: What can Org do to support and integrate this
class? I can think of a couple of things:
- distribute it in contrib
- advertise it in the manual
- have it as one of the default classes in org-export-latex-classes
But maybe you have other ideas?
Cheers
- Carsten
On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Aloha all,
I'd like to draw your attention to a LaTeX class that I put
together in response to posts here about configuring the output
of the LaTeX exporter. The class supports all of the Org-mode
LaTeX default packages. It supports the standard LaTeX article
class and the KOMA-script scrartcl class and provides several
choices of fonts. In addition, it includes facilities to apply
microtypographic adjustments to suitable fonts, set the line
spacing of the document to double space, set lists more compactly
than the standard LaTeX article.cls, and typeset source code
listings, optionally with color.
The documentation that should appear shortly in the Babel/Uses
section of Worg includes two examples that illustrate use of the
class. The first uses the standard LaTeX article class and
Times, Helvetica, and Courier fonts with a 12 point base size to
typeset the literate program on 8.5 x 11 in. paper, with colored
source code listings and microtypographic adjustments.
#+LaTeX_CLASS: org-article-subsubsection
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [article,letterpaper,times,
12pt,listings,color,microtype]
The second uses the KOMA-script scrartcl class and Utopia, Bera,
and Inconsolata fonts with a 10 point base size to typeset the
literate program on 5.8 x 8.3 in. paper in landscape mode, also
with colored source code listings and microtypographic
adjustments. In addition, lists are set tighter than with the
standard LaTeX article class.
#+LaTeX_CLASS: org-article-subsubsection
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [koma,a5paper,landscape,utopia,
10pt,listings,color,microtype,paralist]
The project is hosted at GitHub:
http://github.com/tsdye/org-article
All the best,
Tom
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