Re: [O] Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export

[Nick Dokos]

[forgot to cc: the list]

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Avdi,
> 
> Nick Dokos wrote:
> > Avdi Grimm <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrot=
> e:
> >> > Just star them by hand in the tex file after exporting for the last
> >> > time: it'll take two seconds. You may be able to do it from Org by
> >> > writing a custom function (C-h v org-export-latex-classes <RET> for
> >> > details) but I suspect that the effort is just not worth it.
> >>=20
> >> Ugh. This is a (somewhat) living document; manually tweaking the .tex
> >> after export isn't really an option.
> >>=20
> >> I was hoping there was a tag or property that I could set on a section
> >> indicating it is frontmatter/backmatter.
> >
> > I don't know of an easy way within Org - somebody else might have better
> > ideas.
> >
> > If I were in your position, I'd probably write a simple Makefile to produ=
> ce
> > the PDF and incorporate a simple post-processing awk script to do the
> > transformation. Or write an elisp function to run as part of
> > org-export-latex-final-hook perhaps.
> 
> What about just inserting
> 
>   #+LaTeX: \backmatter{}
> 
> and the like where applicable in the Org file?
> 

>From a quick read of the description of \frontmatter, it is not clear to
me that it is going to work the way the OP wants, but it is indeed
worth trying: I forgot about that completely.

[trying it...]
I just ran a quick test: \frontmatter seems to be undefined in the
report class - it's only defined in the book class.

Thanks,
Nick