Hmmm. Reading this again…
This may be a bug in the exporter…
Now let’s find where…
Because the LaTeX looks ‘nice’…
PA
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> El 3 sept 2025, a las 20:06, David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com>
> escribió:
>
> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The problem seems to be in the way PDFLATEX interpretes the generated
>> LaTeX:
>
> Hmm. I'll have to try this with the ASCII backend and compare. You
> think this apply to other LaTeX engines?
>
>> It is never a good idea to go beyond the subsubsection level in the
>> article class.
>
> Hmm. That will require some rethinking of how I set things up.
>
>> Maybe you should try to create your own org-latex-class. Could you
>> try to see if adding this to your startup code helps?
>>
>> ``` emacs-lisp
>> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>> '("scrartcl"
>> "\\documentclass[oneside]{scrartcl}"
>> ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
>> ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>> ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
>> ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
>> ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
>> ```
>> and changing the class to scratrl.
>
> That changes things in that Visibility Off works as expected producing
> the whole document (as previously with article). However, if I (C-c C-e
> C-v l p) with (C-u 4 S-Tab) (as previous), I still get the large amount
> of blank lines (or blank page) after H4.3.1.2 and the PDF seems to be
> produced only up to H16.1 (previously H15.1).
>
>> But once again: going so deep is never a nice approach ;-)
>
> I was trying to take advantage of Org's outlining. I'll have to rethink
> the organization of my original files.
>
> The issue here seems to be how the export backend and ox-latex.el
> handles visibility as Visibility Off produces a good PDF. Even setting
> visibility to 3 levels instead of 4 produces a strange PDF file that is
> cutoff early (even earlier than 4 levels).
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>>> On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 06:29, David Masterson <dsmaster...@icloud.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me if they see the same problem that I do?
>>>
>>> The attached Org file is just a bunch of headlines of the form
>>> "H#.#.#.#.#.#" down to 6 levels each having a "test" paragraph. When
>>> exporting this to PDF form (via LaTeX), it seemed to look proper with
>>> visibility off (C-c C-e l p) when viewed in xpdf. When I cycled to 4
>>> levels of visibility (C-u 4 S-tab), a couple of strange things happened
>>> when exporting with visibility on (C-c C-e C-v l p) when viewed with
>>> xpdf:
>>>
>>> 1. A large gap comes up between H4.3.1.2 and H4.3.2.
>>> 2. The PDF seems to stop after H15.1 although XPDF TOC goes to H28.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug? If so, where?
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Masterson
>
> --
> David Masterson
