Re: Improvements in the default LaTeX preamble: templates? (was: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Unify in one single list Babel and Polyglossia languages alists)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> I agree that adding more elements to the standard preamble is a complex
> matter. LaTeX is already horribly complex and multiple, and it is
> difficult to satisfy all kinds of users with a standard code. It
> occurred to me that an alternative to modifying Org's code in this
> regard could be to have some kind of "LaTeX template library". I think
> Pandoc has something similar too, if I remember correctly. Those
> templates could be on Org or provided by third parties somewhere else,
> like Worg. In Org, we also have a great system for creating LaTeX
> documents templates, which is the org-latex-classes list. A large number
> of elements could be defined in a 'single' class for any type of
> document.

LaTeX is just one export backend to worry about. From broader
perspective, we can have a generic template library.

ox.el currently allows export backends to define document template as a
function, which is the most generic way. However, we can come up with
something more customizable - customizable in a consistent way, in
contrast to the current disarray with various export backends
approaching the boilerplate code differently.

TEC is working on something along these lines. See https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-config/config.html#cleverer-preamble

Note that we also have inner templates that apply to individual exported
elements.

Best,
Ihor