Emacs Org Mode export to pdf

*Emacs Org Mode* is a perfect tool to do almost anything! I particularly like its slogan and design concept: *Organize Your Life In Plain Text*!

I use Org Mode for many things, which includes writing a to-do list, building a study plan, writing blog posts (including this one), scribbling documents to organise my thoughts (you can also run code in Org Mode, how cool is that!), and planning a research paper.

I would like to share my .org files with LaTex starter code and show how I use it to write research documents. Later I export them from .org file to .tex then to .pdf. I like this pipeline because I don’t need to worry about the layout while writing. I can also combine many different syntaxes, such as latex in the .org file.

Here are some screenshots:

.org file

.pdf

My org-mode templates for latex-style writing

This repo contains different templates as a starter code to write org-mode which can later be exported to latex and pdf.

Emacs settings

I am using Centaur Emacs for my emacs setting, so if you encounter any different exporting result, please refer to the emacs setting and my fork version (in the branch gene-emacs).

Or those lines to your .emacs setting file.

(setq org-latex-pdf-process
      '("latexmk -pdflatex='pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode' -pdf -bibtex -f %f"))



(unless (boundp 'org-latex-classes)
  (setq org-latex-classes nil))

(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("ethz"
               "\\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage]{memoir}
\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\\usepackage{graphicx}
\\usepackage{longtable}
\\usepackage{float}
\\usepackage{wrapfig}
\\usepackage{rotating}
\\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\\usepackage{amsmath}
\\usepackage{textcomp}
\\usepackage{marvosym}
\\usepackage{wasysym}
\\usepackage{amssymb}
\\usepackage{hyperref}
\\usepackage{mathpazo}
\\usepackage{color}
\\usepackage{enumerate}
\\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.95}
\\tolerance=1000
      [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
      [PACKAGES]
      [EXTRA]
\\linespread{1.1}
\\hypersetup{pdfborder=0 0 0}"
               ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
               ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
               ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
               ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
               ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
               ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))


(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("article"
               "\\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\\usepackage{graphicx}
\\usepackage{longtable}
\\usepackage{float}
\\usepackage{wrapfig}
\\usepackage{rotating}
\\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\\usepackage{amsmath}
\\usepackage{textcomp}
\\usepackage{marvosym}
\\usepackage{wasysym}
\\usepackage{amssymb}
\\usepackage{hyperref}
\\usepackage{mathpazo}
\\usepackage{color}
\\usepackage{enumerate}
\\definecolor{bg}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.95}
\\tolerance=1000
      [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
      [PACKAGES]
      [EXTRA]
\\linespread{1.1}
\\hypersetup{pdfborder=0 0 0}"
               ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
               ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
               ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
               ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")))


(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes '("ebook"
                                  "\\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{memoir}
\\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\\settrimmedsize{\\stockheight}{\\stockwidth}{*}
\\setlrmarginsandblock{2cm}{2cm}{*} % Left and right margin
\\setulmarginsandblock{2cm}{2cm}{*} % Upper and lower margin
\\checkandfixthelayout
% Much more laTeX code omitted
"
                                  ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
                                  ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
                                  ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")))

Export from .org file to .pdf

Use the key combination

C-c C-e l o

For more information, please refer to the official documentation.