From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A LaTeX class for Org-mode export
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:58:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1968C361-BB7A-4900-AA80-890934E03EE1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77AA8FA8-FC83-47B0-81DC-E6D83EA7A0D5@tsdye.com>
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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>>
>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 20:37 A LaTeX class for Org-mode export Thomas S. Dye
2010-09-14 21:36 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-14 23:28 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-09-22 2:44 ` Srinivas
2010-09-22 3:35 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-09-22 4:44 ` Srinivas Pavani
2010-09-22 5:31 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-10-16 5:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-16 17:08 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-10-17 5:58 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-17 19:25 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-10-18 18:46 ` John Hendy
2010-10-18 18:48 ` John Hendy
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2010-11-26 4:32 Mike McLean
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