Re: Better way to specify the latex documentclass of an exported file without changing my configuration?

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>]

Feng Shu <tumashu@gmail.com> writes:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm collaborating on a paper with some colleagues, and I convinced them
>> to use org-mode. I'm trying to make sure the paper is as self-contained
>> as possible (I don't want them to have to change their emacs
>> configuration file).To change the documentclass name of the exported
>
> Maybe you can write a Makefile to change their emacs configure...

I don't want to push my luck ;-)

>> My questions are:
>> - is there a way to do this without an emacs-lisp block?
>> - is there a nicer way to make sure that an emacs-lisp block is
>> evaluated upon export than ":exports results :results silent"? (If
>> I don't put it there, the block is not evaluated.)
>> - is there a way to just say the name of the documentclass without all
>> the boilerplate code below? In other words, can I say "this is a llncs
>> documentclass with the same sectioning as an article"?
>
> You should defun a classe for llncs.sty before use it. maybe
> you can rename llncs.sty to article.sty, and put it to directory which contain
> your org file.

Yes, this could be a way to do it. The current approach works, I find it
a little bit too verbose, though.

Thank you for the suggestion,

Alan