Rationale for this patch: in certain cases, in a LaTeX document, it is
necessary to add code before the class declaration (\documentclass...).
For example, commands like \PassOptionsToPackage, \DocumentMetadata{ },
etc.; or certain packages that should be loaded first using
\RequirePackage{}; and other miscellaneous cases[1]. I think that by
defining a new keyword `latex_pre_header', which behaves the same as
latex_header but concatenated before the class, these situations can be
resolved from Org.
[1] A longer example to export to a pdf that has pdf-x compliance, with
the pdfx package:
\providecommand{\pdfxopts}{x-1a}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.xmpdata}
\Title{Some Title}
\Author{Author}
\Language{es-ES}
\Keywords{keywords}
\Publisher{publisher}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{...
--
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https://juanmanuelmacias.com
https://lunotipia.juanmanuelmacias.com
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>From ac6b743a4489f7bc8ab1cdae7ffd3b36e5f3c1d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Manuel Macias <maciasch...@posteo.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:22:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] lisp/ox-latex.el (latex): Add `LATEX_PRE_HEADER' keyword
* (org-latex-make-preamble): In some cases it is necessary to add code
before the `\documentclass' line. `LATEX_PRE_HEADER' behaves the same as
`LATEX_HEADER', except that it is concatenated before the class.
---
lisp/ox-latex.el | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/ox-latex.el b/lisp/ox-latex.el
index 14105c7cc..5e97b8b3d 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-latex.el
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
(:latex-class-options "LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS" nil nil t)
(:latex-header "LATEX_HEADER" nil nil newline)
(:latex-header-extra "LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA" nil nil newline)
+ (:latex-pre-header "LATEX_PRE_HEADER" nil nil newline)
(:description "DESCRIPTION" nil nil parse)
(:keywords "KEYWORDS" nil nil parse)
(:subtitle "SUBTITLE" nil nil parse)
@@ -1984,13 +1985,18 @@ specified in `org-latex-default-packages-alist' or
(replace-regexp-in-string
"^[ \t]*\\\\documentclass\\(\\(\\[[^]]*\\]\\)?\\)"
class-options header t nil 1))))
- (user-error "Unknown LaTeX class `%s'" class))))
+ (user-error "Unknown LaTeX class `%s'" class)))
+ (pre-header (mapconcat
+ #'org-element-normalize-string
+ (list (plist-get info :latex-pre-header) ""))))
(org-latex-guess-polyglossia-language
(org-latex-guess-babel-language
(org-latex-guess-inputenc
(org-element-normalize-string
(org-splice-latex-header
- class-template
+ (if pre-header
+ (format "%s\n%s" pre-header class-template)
+ class-template)
(org-latex--remove-packages org-latex-default-packages-alist info)
(org-latex--remove-packages org-latex-packages-alist info)
snippet?
--
2.42.0
