Thanks,
can you give some hints on how to customize it, or point me to some
information?

/Johan

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Myles,
> > I'm not that comfortable with cmake but I will give your solution a try
> and report My milage.
> >
> > / Johan
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On 6 aug 2012, at 14:14, Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Johan Ekh writes:
> > >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >> I use the default latex exporter in org-mode v7.8 to write documents
> using
> > >> a custom latex class which is built on "article".
> > >> I would like to use the "nomencl" latex package if possible.
> > >
> > >> From the shell I usually run something like
> > >>
> > >> makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
> > >>
> > >> followed by latex or pdflatex, but how can I get the exporter to do
> > >> this?
>
> Customize the variable org-latex-to-pdf-process appropriately.
>
> Nick
>
> > > I don't know the answer to your question, but when I came across the
> > > same problem, I used a makefile-like solution because I felt that the
> > > building process was becoming sufficiently complicated to warrant using
> > > a specialised tool.  If you are comfortable with CMake already it may
> be
> > > worth a look.  Have a look for "UseLatex.cmake".
> > >
> > > Basically you get emacs to export the .tex file from the .org file:
> > >
> > > add_custom_command(
> > >  OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.tex
> > >  COMMAND emacs --batch
> > >    --visit=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mypaper.org
> > >    --load=/home/me/myfuncs.el
> > >    --funcall org-export-as-latex-batch
> > >  DEPENDS orgfile
> > >  COMMENT "Exporting orgmode file to LaTeX using emacs"
> > >  )
> > >
> > > And then bibtex and nomenclature are asked to do their stuff, and a pdf
> > > is produced, with something like this directive:
> > >
> > > add_latex_document( mypaper.tex
> > >  INPUTS tex/bibliography.tex
> > >         texlib/mystyle.sty
> > >  BIBFILES texlib/mylibrary.bib
> > >  DEFAULT_PDF
> > >  USE_NOMENCL
> > > )
> > >
> > > I also get it to generate all my R plots.  Other advantages are that
> you
> > > get an out-of-source build that is isolated (to some extent) in its own
> > > directory.  And I think it is easier to diagnose the problems when
> > > things go wrong, better than staring at an elisp backtrace.  Now if org
> > > would write my CMakeList.txt for me, that would be a fine thing.
> > >
> > > Myles
> >
>
>
>
>