Re: [Orgmode] exporting as latex sections

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Suvayu,

On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:26 PM, suvayu ali wrote:

> Hi org-mode users,
>
> I have been collaborating on a big (many contributors) paper. For all
> my various contributions to the paper I need to provide the latex
> source as a section of a latex document. Is there some way I can
> export to latex without all the preamble and header information from
> the org-mode file? Or just exporting to latex and manually removing
> all that is the only way to do it?
>
> While we are at it if I were to attempt to write my own version of
> latex export function which does this instead, where should I be
> looking? I'm not very good at lisp, so some suggestions would be
> really helpful if I need to take this route.
>
> Thanks for any help/suggestions.
>
> --  
> Suvayu

I don't know any way to do this with the Org-mode LaTeX exporter  
(though there may be some way I don't know yet).

This might not be an option you want to follow, or something you have  
already thought about, but you could achieve your result using LaTeX  
source code blocks and then tangle, rather than export, your  
contribution.  This has the advantage that it is relatively simple to  
tangle different chunks, in case you are contributing to different  
parts of the paper.

#+source: chunk1
#+begin_src latex :tangle chunk1.tex
  This is chunk 1.
#+end_src

#+source: chunk2
#+begin_src latex :tangle chunk2.tex
  This is chunk 2.
#+end_src

Hope this helps.

All the best,
Tom