Re: [Orgmode] #+LATEX_PREAMBLE

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Austin Frank wrote:

> Carsten and org-ers--
>
> I have a feature request related to \LaTeX export.  I know that we can
> set up custom \documentclass declarations in org-export-latex-classes,
> and that each of these can contain arbitrary preamble information  
> along
> with the \documentclass{} declaration.  I also know that the preamble
> can be further customized using file local variables to set
> org-export-latex-append-header.  These two solutions can seem  
> relatively
> heavyweight when one just wants to add a new \usepackage{} declaration
> to the preamble of a specific file.
>
> Any chance we could have a mechanism to add single line declarations  
> to
> the preamble of the exported tex file using the #+FOO syntax?  I would
> really love to be able to do something like
>
> #+LATEX_PREAMBLE:  \usepackage{pstricks}
> #+LATEX_PREAMBLE:  \usepackage{Sweave}

Hi Austin,

I have implemented this proposal, with the slightly shorter

#+LATEX_HEADER:

Multiple lines can be used.

It already works, documentation is still missing.

- Carsten