Introducing non-technical people to LaTeX

Re:Introducing non-technical people to LaTeX by jmmcd on Friday February 17, 2012 @11:18AM (#3603831)

That doesn't work too well when writing for a conference or journal with a predefined template and style file. The obvious solution -- do all your writing in Markdown and then integrate at the very end of the workflow -- doesn't work too well because you can't tell how long the document is until you use the real template.

Same goes for org-mode's Latex export.

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Re:Introducing non-technical people to LaTeX by grep2 on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:51PM (#3604222)

Actually, it is acceptably straightforward to include a custom header in org-mode. Basically you can create your own latex class in customize-group org-export-latex and then add a

#+LATEX-HEADER: \input{stuff.tex}

to your file to include the appropriate header magick. I'm currently using this approach to prepare my thesis in org-mode.

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