Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Alan Schmitt <alan.schm...@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> I'm using the new exporter to create a pdf (through latex) of a subtree
>> of a huge file, and I want to remove some default information. I found
>> out a way to do it, but I'm not sure it's the right way. Here it is.
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC org
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :EXPORT_TITLE: Foo bar
>> :EXPORT_OPTIONS: toc:nil author:nil
>> :EXPORT_DATE: ~
>> :END:
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> The part about which I'm not sure is how to remove the date. I tried
>> putting nothing instead of the '~' but it does not work. Maybe there
>> could be an option for it?
>
> Indeed, there could be a "date:nil" option. I'll add it later. Thanks
> for suggesting it.
I wanted to fix this and saw that you already did. However it seems that
LaTeX still adds a date when a "\maketitle" happens with no date
specified. This small patch should fix this.
diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el b/contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el
index 64908b9..9534a79 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el
@@ -1026,9 +1026,10 @@ holding export options."
(format "\\author{%s\\thanks{%s}}\n" author email))
((or author email) (format "\\author{%s}\n" (or author email)))))
;; Date.
- (when (plist-get info :with-date)
+ (if (plist-get info :with-date)
(let ((date (org-export-data (plist-get info :date) info)))
- (and date (format "\\date{%s}\n" date))))
+ (and date (format "\\date{%s}\n" date)))
+ "\\date{}\n")
;; Title
(format "\\title{%s}\n" title)
;; Hyperref options.
(Please let me know if it's not the good format to send the patch.)
Alan
