Defining new structural markup element

Defining new structural markup element

[Levy, Roger]

Hi,

I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered somewhere in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer.

I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and specify its translation into latex.  e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my document

#+begin_foo
bar
#+end_foo

and have this translated into LaTeX as something like 

\em
bar
\em

but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at the beginning and end of the "foo" block.  Is there an easy way to do this?

Best & many thanks in advance!

Roger

Re: Defining new structural markup element

[Nick Dokos]

Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered somew=
> here in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer.
> 
> I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and =
> specify its translation into latex.  e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my=
>  document
> 
> #+begin_foo
> bar
> #+end_foo
> 
> and have this translated into LaTeX as something like=20
> 
> \em
> bar
> \em
> 
> but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at =
> the beginning and end of the "foo" block.  Is there an easy way to do this?
> 

Not sure I understand completely what you are trying to do, but you can
do something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

* foo

#+LATEX: \begin{foo}
bar
#+LATEX: \end{foo}

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

to insert arbitrary LaTeX markup at the indicated places when exporting
to latex. Other exporters will just omit the markup.

Nick

Re: Defining new structural markup element

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi,

the Worg page on LaTeX publishing covers this under "Block-level Markup"
and "Inline Markup":

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-2
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-3

Haven't tried it myself so far (but planning to do so).

Cheers,
Viktor

Levy, Roger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered somewhere in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer.
> 
> I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and specify its translation into latex.  e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my document
> 
> #+begin_foo
> bar
> #+end_foo
> 
> and have this translated into LaTeX as something like 
> 
> \em
> bar
> \em
> 
> but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at the beginning and end of the "foo" block.  Is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> Best & many thanks in advance!
> 
> Roger
> 
> 

Re: Defining new structural markup element

[Levy, Roger]

Thanks so much, Viktor, this is exactly what I wanted!

Best

Roger

On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:08 PM EST, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the Worg page on LaTeX publishing covers this under "Block-level Markup"
> and "Inline Markup":
> 
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-2
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-3
> 
> Haven't tried it myself so far (but planning to do so).
> 
> Cheers,
> Viktor
> 
> Levy, Roger wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered somewhere in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer.
>> 
>> I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and specify its translation into latex.  e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my document
>> 
>> #+begin_foo
>> bar
>> #+end_foo
>> 
>> and have this translated into LaTeX as something like 
>> 
>> \em
>> bar
>> \em
>> 
>> but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at the beginning and end of the "foo" block.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>> 
>> Best & many thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>> 

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