Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>]

Nick Dokos wrote:
> Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a standard format I like to use in creating some class notes
>> in latex.  I use memoir and have a boilerplate that only differs
>> in the title from notes to notes.  I have decided to try to manage
>> my documentation for my notes in org to see if it is easier to do.
>> Mostly (so far) it is a pretty good match.
>>
>> However, I have run into a snag for exporting the notes to latex.
>> I tried using the #+TITLE: directive but got page numbers (in roman)
>> on the first couple of pages.  This looked ugly. 
> 
> Can you post the tex file that is produced with the TITLE directive? I
> don't understand why/how roman page numbers are produced (but I don't
> know memoir well).
> 

Actually, part of the boilerplate includes a \pagenumbering{roman}
*after* the titlingpage environment.  This is probably what caused it.
After all my remaining boilerplate (including a Preface section) I
insert a \pagenumbering{arabic} and this restarts the page numbers
from 1.

>> So I set the#+TITLE: directive to be empty and added to the #+TEXT: block
>> the following:
>>
>> #+TEXT: \title{ABC Class Notes}
>> #+TEXT: \begin{titlingpage}
>> #+TEXT: \maketitle
>> #+TEXT: \end{titlingpage}
>>
>> This almost works.  The problem is the first of these lines gets
>> exported with the closing '}' escaped.  In other words it comes
>> out as:
>>
>> \title{ABC Class Notes\}
>>
>> I am not sure why this is or what to do about it.
> 
> This is probably a bug - Carsten has fixed a number of instances
> of such escaped braces I believe.
> 

Should I submit a bug report?  As I was working with this another
piece of boilerplate I had (and removed) was:

#+TEXT: \shorttableofcontents{Sessions}{0}

which resulted in:

\shorttableofcontents{Sessions}{0\}

I don't have to have the short table of contents so I removed it
but it is another such escaped backslash.

>> BTW, I had to set the TITLE directive to empty since just having it
>> resulted in an automatic \maketitle export which was not surrounded
>> by the titlingpage environment.  I really wanted that titlingpage
>> environment and I couldn't think of another way of  handling it.
>>
> 
> You can perhaps redefine org-export-latex-title-command:
> 
> (setq org-export-latex-title-command "\\begin{titlingpage}\n\\maketitle\n\\end{titlingpage}")
> 
> and try using the TITLE directive again. 
> 

Can I set this on a case-by-case basis?  Not all my documents use
memoir.  I think the titlingpage environment is memoir-specific.

Mark