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

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Avdi,

Nick Dokos wrote:
> Avdi Grimm <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Ugh. This is a (somewhat) living document; manually tweaking the .tex
>> after export isn't really an option.
>> 
>> 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 produce
> 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?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban