Re: [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Hi Eric,

>> While automatic package handling is very exciting it could go awry.
>
> I'm not too in favor of automatic package detection. Unless it works
> nearly perfectly, it just seems like trading one kind of user irritation
> for another.

Yeah.

> Personally, I _always_ blast the default packages and load my own stuff.
>
> One potential middle ground would be providing defaults "sets": for
> instance LATEX_MATH_DEFAULTS (or whatever), that provided a couple
> choices for math-related package suites that are known to work well
> together.
>
> Meh, maybe not.

It's just not much different from org-latex-classes. . .  Perhaps it
would be nice for reproducibility between documents.  But, yeah. . .

>> Fixes are usually available.  For instance, I use a filter to disable
>> fontenc/inputenc if pdflatex is not used (it breaks xelatex for me).
>
> If anything was going to be automatically detected and handled, it seems
> like it should be this. This is one of the main reasons I gave up trying
> to use the defaults at all.

The nice thing is that such stuff can be handled pretty conveniently
on the TeX side so that documents can be used for different engines
cf. my other post.  I also use this for e.g. fonts; I like Linux
Libertine for the final version, but usually don't want to deal with
the slowdown of xelatex.

–Rasmus

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