Re: [O] LaTeX_HEADER blocks
Hello, Mark Edgington edgi...@gmail.com writes: It is possible in org-mode to do either #+LaTeX: \somecommand or #+BEGIN_LaTeX \somecommand #+END_LaTeX I typically use the latter (the block form) because I often have multiple lines of LaTeX I would like to include at certain locations of a document. Similar to #+LaTeX, there is also #+LaTeX_HEADER, which ensures that something is included as part of the preamble. Unfortunately, however, there is no equivalent block form for #+LaTeX_HEADER. As a result, when there are several items one wishes to have in the preamble, it's necessary to have many such lines, each with a #+LaTeX_HEADER: prefix. For the sake of consistency and convenience, wouldn't it be worthwhile to add a LaTeX_HEADER block type to accompany the LaTeX block type? This would not be consistent. #+LATEX_HEADER was free for grabs but #+BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER already means something: it is a special block. As a consequence, export back-ends ignore LATEX_HEADER but handle BEGIN_LATEX_HEADER (basically, they ignore the wrapper but export the contents). We would need to make #+begin_latex_header an export block. However, I plan to change syntax for export blocks for Org 8.4 and it will not be possible to define arbitrarily export blocks. In fact, #+begin_latex ... #+end_latex are expected to become #+begin_export latex [attributes] ... #+begin_export If latex header block idea is implemented, I think it could instead use a syntax such as #+begin_export latex :header t ... #+end_export Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
Re: [O] LaTeX_HEADER blocks
I noticed there was also a newer thread (around a year old) on this topic. It seems that what Nicolas Goaziou proposed earlier (about using #+attr_latex to modify whether a latex block is a header block or not) has not yet been implemented. This would be an alternative, though I find it more cryptic than just having a #+begin_latex_header block, so it would probably be more difficult for org-mode users to find (or remember) this, and as I mentioned in my last message, it lacks the benefit of consistency with how #+latex and #+begin_latex relate to each other. Nicolas' message is here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-06/msg00841.html.
[O] LaTeX_HEADER blocks
Hi Everyone, It is possible in org-mode to do either #+LaTeX: \somecommand or #+BEGIN_LaTeX \somecommand #+END_LaTeX I typically use the latter (the block form) because I often have multiple lines of LaTeX I would like to include at certain locations of a document. Similar to #+LaTeX, there is also #+LaTeX_HEADER, which ensures that something is included as part of the preamble. Unfortunately, however, there is no equivalent block form for #+LaTeX_HEADER. As a result, when there are several items one wishes to have in the preamble, it's necessary to have many such lines, each with a #+LaTeX_HEADER: prefix. For the sake of consistency and convenience, wouldn't it be worthwhile to add a LaTeX_HEADER block type to accompany the LaTeX block type? It seems like this was proposed a couple years ago by Eric Fraga, but didn't go anywhere because of concerns over how to decide where to place the content of such blocks relative to the content of #+LaTeX_HEADER lines. It would seem sensible to make it work identically to how #+LaTeX lines and #+BEGIN_LaTeX blocks work -- they are simply included in the order in which they are encountered in the org file. Regards, Mark
