Re: LaTeX tutorial (focused on what Org exports) ??

[William Denton]

On 5 January 2023, David Masterson wrote:

> With the Org files that you create, how many levels of headers do you
> use?  I use Org for personal task management mostly, but I'd like to
> produce good PDFs to give to my wife (Org is too complicated).  My
> problem is that I'll structure my documents with many (5+) header
> levels with tasks at the bottom.  The problem is that the 'article' and
> 'report' document classes used by Org don't look right if you go beyond
> 3 levels -- if you know what I mean.  (NOTE: LaTeX newbie)

By default the first three levels go to LaTeX headings, and then after that they 
become lists.  You can change that with the H option in a header, as described 
here, to set org-export-headline-levels:

https://orgmode.org/org.html#Export-Settings

So you could say:

#+options: H:5

Level four headings become paragraphs, and level five become subparagraphs.

With that in place, you might like how the titlesec package can give a great 
deal of control over section headings.  I use this for some reports---it wraps 
text around level three headings, which about as far as I usually go for 
documents I export.

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[]{titlesec}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \titleformat{\section} {\centering\Large}{\thesection}{}{}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \titleformat{\subsubsection}[drop]{\itshape}{\thesection}{}{}{}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0.75in}{\baselineskip}{0.5in}


Bill

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