Re: Collapse LaTeX source before start of main document?

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hello Chris,

Sorry for the delay, had to attend a meeting.

On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:37:41 -0400
Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Suvayu,
> 
> Thanks for sharing your use case - I'm interested in a few more
> details:
> 
> > For example for my appendix and bibliography I use the following:
> >
> > #+INCLUDE: thesis-appendix.org :minlevel 1

[...]

> 
> Would this #+INCLUDE line come within the last chapter headline?  In
> other words did you have something like
> 
> #+INCLUDE: frontmatter.org
> * Chapter 1
> ....
> * Chapter 2
> ...
> * Last Chapter
> ....
> #+INCLUDE: thesis-appendix.org :minlevel 1
> .
> .
> .
> \bibliography{master}
> 
> With this, it seems that all of the appendix/backmatter gets folded
> into the last chapter heading.  That is sort of the way I'm thinking
> of working my thesis, but it seems sub-optimal.
>

Yes that is correct. It folds into the last chapter, and I too find this
sub-optimal. If there was a way to specify certain headlines were
"special" and needed to be exported according to the sub-tree
properties, that would be ideal. Although I haven't looked into it, I'm
afraid it would require some lisp intervention.

That said, I just found a possible workaround. If you put the appendix
and bibliography and friends under the Footnotes headline, it somewhat
replicates the behaviour I would like to have. Something like this:

* Footnotes

[fn:1] footnote 1
[fn:2] footnote 2


#+INCLUDE: thesis-appendix.org :minlevel 1

#+LaTeX: \backmatter
#+LaTeX: \newpage
#+LaTeX: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}

#+LaTeX: \bibliographystyle{plain}
#+LaTeX: \bibliography{master}


After my thesis defence I might actually get around to attempting to
deal with this in lisp. Would be a good learning excercise. :)

> Chris

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Suvayu

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