Re: [O] [bug] Export to latex truncates long subsections (WE attached)

[Tim Cross]

I think I agree with Julius. While it may be a legitimate use case, the
risk that it will break other use cases seems a bit high (I've never run
into this issue in many years of org use).

Perhaps add another document 'type' into 'org-latex-classes which adds
the xpatch and associated change to the default. I have a number of such
'templates' (e.g. to generate work documents with the 'approved' colours
and logo etc). It works quite well.

Tim


Julius Dittmar <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> Am 27.08.19 um 08:57 schrieb Vladimir Nikishkin:
>> I have indeed investigated the issue, and this is the link:
>> https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=32788
>>
>> To make the long story short, the folowing trick is needed to allow
>> page breaks after headings (which is a completely standard case in
>> -org).
>>
>> #+begin_src latex
>> \usepackage{xpatch}
>> \makeatletter
>> % This is not recommended, because it can break several things
>> \xpatchcmd{\@afterheading}{\@nobreaktrue}{\@nobreakfalse}{%
>> \typeout{WARNING: \string\@afterheading\space broken}%
>> }{%
>> \@latexerr{ERROR: Cannot patch \string\@afterheading}\@ehd%
>> }
>> \makeatother
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Shall this trick be considered for inclusion in 'org' officially?
>> I mean, having lists of empty headings is a perfectly standard use case for 
>> org.
>
> I would not want that as the default. Yes, it is one standard use case.
> It would break other standard use cases, like creating ordinary
> documents, though.
>
> Perhaps variant adding such a patch could be added to org-latex-classes,
> or at least mentioned in the docs to org-latex-classes? That way you can
> use this "class" version for such cases without adding unnecessary
> uglyness to other org-created documents.
>
> Another possible approach would be a change in the export functions.
> What really is needed here, from my point of view, is that the export
> adds a superficial paragraph to a heading in the case that there's no
> content at all. Nothing should be added if the heading has sub-headings,
> I count that as content. In case there is no content at all, then some
> form of breakable vertical space should be added. I don't know enough
> LaTeX to find the least intrusive way, though I'd try \vspace{0pt}.
>
> I did never dig into the export functions, so I don't know how difficult
> that would be.
>
> Just my thoughts,
> Julius Dittmar


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Tim Cross