Re: [PATCH] ox-latex: Add scrartcl LaTeX class

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday, 23 Sep 2015 at 18:59, Sebastian Boehm wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On 21 September 2015 at 21:46, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>> But can't users needing a non-default class customize their
>> own `org-latex-classes? Or is there an entitling reason to offer it out
>> of the box?
>
> you are of course right; users can always customise their own setup.
> However, when sharing Org files with other people this kind of tight
> coupling between the Org file and the user's Emacs configuration can
> become quite problematic.

Yes, this is a real problem.

One solution, but not an ideal one, is to use file local variables to
define org-latex-classes (and any other variables) as appropriate for
the document.  It's not ideal because unfortunately most of org's
variables (as well as many of emacs's own) are "global" and hence affect
the functionality of org visiting other buffers.  I find myself having
separate emacs instances for some org files for this reason.

I had thought that maybe using #+bind: would solve this problem but the
export engine looks for the LaTeX class before binding takes effect.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-270-g256fef