Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

OK, this change is now in the master branch.

- Carsten

On Apr 1, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> OK, it seems that I have really overstated this change.  You are of
> course right that your header for a document type can be very long,
> that that defining it in org-export-latex-classes is a viable option
> (other being to put this stuff into a separate file).
>
> So let me restate what I am trying to say in this thread.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Org-mode contains now a new variable `org-export-latex-default- 
> packages-alist'
> which contains all the LaTeX packages it needs to use for basic Org- 
> mode
> functionality.  The corresponding \usepackage statements used to be  
> part
> of the header definitions in org-export-latex-classes, and they had to
> be repeated for each document class.  This is wasteful, error prone,  
> and
> hard to maintain.
> Therefore, these packages are now collected in the new variable,
> and they will be spliced into the header.
>
> If you have customized the variable org-export-latex-classes, you  
> need to
> remove the following lines from each class definition:
>
> \usepackage[AUTO]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \usepackage{float}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
> \usepackage{soul}
> \usepackage{latexsym}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
>
> If you have other packages you always want to use in all
> classes, you can add them to another variable,
> `org-export-latex-packages-alist'.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I think this makes more sense, thank you for making me clarify this.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Mark Elston wrote:
>
>> On 3/31/2010 5:35 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Chris Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> * =org-export-latex-classes= no longer should be customized for  
>>>>> packages
>>>> ...
>>>>> So if you have customized this variable, please remove once more
>>>>> (hopefully for the last time) your customization, so that it can
>>>>> revert to its now much simpler default value. Put all your
>>>>> package definitions into org-export-latex-packages-alist.
>>>>> I hope this works, and we will not get conflicts because of the
>>>>> sequence in which packages are called. If there are problems,
>>>>> please let me know so that we can find a solution.
>>>>
>>>> Is it sufficient to change the variable that is being set from
>>>> org-export-latex-classes to org-export-latex-default-packages- 
>>>> alist? Or
>>>> does the format of the list change at all?
>>>
>>> org-export-latex-default-packages-alist has the same format as
>>> org-export-latex-pakcages-alist. And I am filling
>>> org-export-latex-default-packages-alist already with the correct  
>>> set of
>>> default packages, so you should not touch that variable.
>>>
>>> Only if you have previously customized org-export-latex-classes in  
>>> order
>>> to add more usepackage statements, then you should remove your
>>> customization of that variable and list your set of additional  
>>> packages
>>> in org-export-latex-packages-alist instead.
>>>
>>> Am I making sense?
>>>
>>
>> So, org-export-latex-classes will no longer be used to define
>> LaTeX_CLASS classes?  Instead these classes will be defined in
>> org-export-latex-default-packages-alist?
>>
>> The problem is mainly nomenclature, I guess, but my LaTeX_CLASS
>> definitions are usually a *lot* more than a list of packages.
>>
>> It seems a little odd, but OK.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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>
> - Carsten
>
>
>

- Carsten