Hi Daniele,
Daniele Pizzolli <d...@toel.it> writes:
> thanks for you comment. I try to explain my point of view better. Now
> the export to letter silently discard the headings text in the exported
> tex. This is quite bad, even if documented. As a user I want to change
> quite easily the export backend (text, latex, beamer, ...) while
> retaining most of my work. Every backend as it's own supported
> features, but discarding the input provided by the user does not provide
> the best user experience to me.
That's a fair point. Nonetheless,
> By the way this patch does not change the final output, if there is no
> section.lco available. So there should be no regression and only
> improvements.
> I really prefer something that instead of discarding the user input
> rewrite it to fit the backend features (if there is no heading/section
> support, use something like the start of paragraph, and support section
> only if enabled by the user) but this is beyond my coding abilities in
> elisp, so I sent the minimal working patch with the minimal impact on
> existing behaviour.
Whether sections.lco is available is nontrivial. As I remember the patch,
it also imposed level two headings to be sections.
If you really think this is the right approach, perhaps the "H:" option
could be used to set the special heading level... We’d need this since
you can specify the opening with a heading.
>>> +Add [sections] to LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS with:
>>> +
>>> +#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [sections]
>>> +
>>> +If section.lco is unavaliable the section are exported in the tex
>>> +source but not rendered in the final pdf.
>>
>> Whether section.lco is available or not is a complicated question. You
>> first need to figure out what is the tex distribution (what if it’s not in
>> PATH) and whether section.lco is available via something like kpsewhich.
>> Note that e.g. TL also looks in the current path.
>
> I use org to touch as less latex as possible, I just downloaded the
> section.lco and put in the same directory of my org file and everything
> was working. A little before I used apt-file search section.lco but
> since nothing was found I quickly reverted to the manual download. I
> wish that everything is packaged as distro package, but I can survive
> some manual work.
This is because sections.lco is not part of KOMA-Script (like titlepage¹).
E.g. on my system with TL:
$ kpsewhich sections.lco
/home/rasmus/.texmf/tex/latex/koma-script/sections.lco
kpsewhich/tex also looks in the current directory, which is why you can
just place it in the same folder.
Cheers,
Rasmus
Footnotes:
¹ http://www.komascript.de/titlepage
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