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[George De Bruin <sndchaser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johannes,

Not being a Latex expert, I don't have an answer for your inquiry,
however I do have an interest in your project.  I was hoping someone
would start looking at writing plugins to export to several formats:
TeX, LaTeX, Lout, and DocBook being the ones that come most readily to
mind.

Now, that I am in this type of thought...  I do have an idea: what if
we map larger document classes (ie, the Book classes) when exporting a
whole notebook, and smaller (article) type classes when exporting
individual documents?

George

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Johannes Reinhardt
<jreinhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am working on LaTeX export. If someone is interested in testing and
> providing feedback, the bzr branch can be found here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~johannes-reinhardt/+junk/zim-latex
>
> I've run into a problem, where I am not sure what the best soltion is.
> The sectioning levels depend on the documentclass (article, report,
> book, presentation, ...). For example, there are no chapters in
> articles. To make the dumper do the right thing, (i.e provide the five
> correct sectioning levels for the documentclass), I see several
> possibilities:
>        * A custom dumper class for each documentclass. This pollutes
>          the output format menu with lots of LaTeX-variant.
>        * The dumper class has to know which documentclass the chosen
>          template is. So the exporter has to tell the dumper which
>          template is targeted. Also either the template has to be
>          parsed or some convention for the template name has to be
>          established so that the documentclass for a template
>          can be determined.
>        * The dumper writes sectioning indirect commands (like \hone,
>          \htwo, \hthree, ...), and these are mapped to the right
>          sectioning commands within the template with \newcommand.
>          This is ugly, as the resulting LaTeX Code is obfuscated.
>        * Sacrifice the flexibility and lock LaTeX export to a certain
>          documentclass.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Johannes Reinhardt
>
>
>
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