Re: [patch] ox-latex.el: Add `LATEX_PRE_HEADER' keyword

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Max Nikulin writes:

> LaTeX code may be inserted
> - before \DocumentMetadata
> - between \DocumentMetadata and \documentclass
> - between \documentclass and preamble added by Org
> - between Org preamble and \begin{document}

The first two cases can be solved perfectly with LaTeX_pre_header,
without having to complicate your life further.

> Since ordering is important [...]

Starting with \documentclass, the order is important in certain cases
and not so important in others. And, anyway, you can always use a hook
like \AtBegin... \AtEnd..., etc.

And if users want to have complete control over the preamble (that is,
everything before \begin{document}), they can always define a new class
(in Org terminology) or write a preamble or a sty file in a separate Org
document using org-babel and literary programming. In a job I'm doing
now my preamble has 1736 lines. Writing it with org-babel is quite
comfortable. In short, I think (IMHO) Org already has enough resources
for those situations.

> I consider \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.xmpdata} as an acceptable
> (but perhaps fragile) hack for LaTeX-first document. During export of
> Org file, this file should be written directly with values from Org
> metadata.

I think I should insist on what I said in my previous message, with a
copy/paste:

The thing is that here it is not a question of whether something can be
done in this way or in another better way. This is how a given package
recommends doing it. If the user wants to use that specific package, she/he
will have to follow these instructions. It's more. I am thinking, for
example, of the case in which the user has to obtain a * tex file, not a
PDF, because she/he is collaborating with more people who do not use
Org, but do use that code in the * tex document.

Apart from that, since any code (except \usepackage) is allowed before
\documentclass, I think that the user should have the possibility (and
the freedom) to enter in their *tex documents whatever they want in that
place, including comments, luacode, shebangs, etc.

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