Oddity in LaTeX export?

Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Mark Elston]

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.  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.

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.

There are a couple of other items but I want to take this a step at a
time.

Mark

Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Nick Dokos]

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).

> 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.

> 
> 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. I'm surmising that this had
something to do with the roman page numbers, but maybe that's wrong?

HTH,
Nick

Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Mark Elston]

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

Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi,

Is this already fixed, or still an open issue?

Thanks.

- Carsten

On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Mark Elston wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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- Carsten

Re: Oddity in LaTeX export?

[Mark Elston]

Carsten,

This was fixed a week ago or two.  I don't remember the checkin but I
saw it in the log and verified the fix works.

I remember looking at the diffs and it had to do with preprocessing the
TEXT section as well....

Thanks.

Mark

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is this already fixed, or still an open issue?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Mark Elston wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> 
>