Re: Exporting org to LaTeX to PDF: headings do not convert to sections

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 21, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

>  Thank you for the response.
>
>
> On May 21, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> The only thing you can do in Org is to increase the number of  
> headline levels to the maximum possible:
>
> #+OPTION H:5
>
> This doesn't work for me.

Typo:

#+OPTIONS: H:5

>
>
> is I think the maximum you can get.  You cal also create a
> LaTeX class with more headline leves and push H even further.
> I believe there are some clases which provide at least  
> subsubparagraph.
>
>
>
> If you have a good idea how to represent deeper levels in LaTeX,  
> maybe we
> can do something clever in the LaTeX exporter.
>
> ??????
>
>
>
>
> I just realize that your question provides the answer to a question
> I had for a long time:  Why did Bastien implement lower
> levels in the LaTeX export as {description} lists instead of
> {itemize} lists.  Now I know the answer:  Because the number of levels
> in a description list is not limited.
>
> I recently changed Bastien's code to use itemize instead, for
> consistence with HTML export.  Fortunately I left the old code
> in, with a customization option.  Please try:
>
> (setq org-export-latex-low-level 'description)
>
> So far, this doesn't solve my problem.  Should I then use  
> description lists for all outline entries?

No.  This should just take your

******** headline

and export it as a description list item.  Works just fine in my tests  
here.

>
>
> I don't understand why  I  do not see "section" or "subsection", and  
> the sections often come out with bare stars.  Is this also because  
> the number of levels has been exceeded?

No, this must be a different bug, which I cannot reproduce.  Example  
file???

- Carsten

>
> Thank you again.  This is the first limitation of LaTeX I have not  
> seen an immediate way around.
>
>
>
> Alan
>