Re: latex export beginner

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm taking my first baby steps at exporting an org file to LaTex. I know
>>> a little about org-mode, and almost nothing about LaTex.
>>>
>>> I type C-c C-e l o
>>>
>>> A file named file.tex is produced, but the process halts with an error:
>>>
>>> org-latex-compile: PDF file ./plm.pdf wasn't produced: [LaTeX error] 
>>>
>>> A program called pdfTex produces a buffer with extensive output,
>>> including:
>>>
>>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>>
>>> This seems like some markup that should probably be included in my file
>>> automatically as part of the export? Shoud I add "/begin{document}" to
>>> my org doc?
>>>
>>
>> No, the exporter should have done that. Post your org file and the
>> resulting tex file.
>>
>> Also, the version of your org mode: C-u M-x org-version will insert
>> it in the current buffer.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> I'm using Org-mode version 8.2.6 (8.2.6-22-gb11b4a-elpaplus @
> /home/steven/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140519/)
>
> I mocked up a smaller reproduction of the problem, because the original
> file is too large. The same errors were produced. There's a file called
> test.log, too, which I'm not pasting in here because of its length, but
> I can if it would be helpful.

Yes, please: as Igor Sosa Mayor mentioned, you are probably missing some
latex packages. The document exports and compiles without any problems
here. If you are on Linux and use the TeXlive distribution of TeX, then
you can check for the existence of e.g. package "ulem" with

    kpsewhich ulem.sty

Not sure about other systems.

> Here's my org-mode document:
>
> | Test org file for conversion to LaTex
> |  
> | * My top-level header
> | Some information under the top level header
> | ** A secondary header
> |  
> | * Chapter the first
> | Some information from the first chapter.Some
> | information from the first Some information from the first chapter.Some
> | information from the first chapter.Some information from the first
> | chapter.
> |  
> | * Chapter the second
> | The end of this document.
>
> And here is the tex output file:
>
> | % Created 2014-05-21 Wed 09:11
> | \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> | \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> | \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> | \usepackage{fixltx2e}
> | \usepackage{graphicx}
> | \usepackage{longtable}
> | \usepackage{float}
> | \usepackage{wrapfig}
> | \usepackage{rotating}
> | \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
> | \usepackage{amsmath}
> | \usepackage{textcomp}
> | \usepackage{marvosym}
> | \usepackage{wasysym}
> | \usepackage{amssymb}
> | \usepackage{hyperref}
> | \tolerance=1000
> | \author{Steven Arntson}
> | \date{\today}
> | \title{test}
> | \hypersetup{
> |   pdfkeywords={},
> |   pdfsubject={},
> |   pdfcreator={Emacs 24.3.1 (Org mode 8.2.6)}}
> | \begin{document}
> |  
> | \maketitle
> | \tableofcontents
> |  
> | Test org file for conversion to LaTex
> |  
> | \section{My top-level header}
> | \label{sec-1}
> | Some information under the top level header
> | \subsection{A secondary header}
> | \label{sec-1-1}
> |  
> | \section{Chapter the first} \label{sec-2}
> | Some information from the
> | first chapter.Some information from the first Some information from the
> | first chapter.Some information from the first chapter.Some information
> | from the first chapter.
> |  
> | \section{Chapter the second}
> | \label{sec-3}
> | The end of this document.
> | % Emacs 24.3.1 (Org mode 8.2.6)
> | \end{document}

I'd suggest that you use this style of quote:


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Quoted text
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

for stuff that your correspondents might want to use: easier to
just cut-and-paste. This is done with the command

     M-x message-mark-inserted-region

(which is bound to C-c M-m by default I think).


Nick