Re: org-mode export to (latex) PDF

[Stefan Nobis]

Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> (add-to-list 'org-latex-inputenc-alist '("utf8" . "utf8x"))

Do not do this. Both, utf8x and ucs, are obsolete and deprecated for
quite some time.

For proper unicode support, switch from pdflatex to lualatex or
xelatex. With these newer backends (and proper adjustments for the
LaTeX preamble generated by Org) Unicode should work out of the box
(if the font supports the requested Unicode characters).

My current packages setup to support all three engines looks like
this (should work for normal documents and beamer):

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(setq org-latex-default-packages-alist
        '(("AUTO" "inputenc" t ("pdflatex"))
          ("T1" "fontenc" t ("pdflatex"))
          ("" "fontspec" t ("lualatex" "xelatex"))
          ("AUTO" "babel" t ("pdflatex" "lualatex"))
          ("AUTO" "polyglossia" t ("xelatex"))
          ("" "graphicx" t)
          ("" "grffile" t)
          ("" "longtable" nil)
          ("" "wrapfig" nil)
          ("" "rotating" nil)
          ("normalem" "ulem" t)
          ("" "mathtools" t)
          ("" "amssymb" t)
          ("" "textcomp" t ("pdflatex"))
          ("warnings-off={mathtools-colon,mathtools-overbracket}" 
"unicode-math" t ("lualatex" "xelatex"))
          ("" "caption" nil)
          ("" "booktabs" t)
          ("" "hyperref" nil)
          "\\tolerance=1000"))

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To switch e.g. to lualatex (and e.g. use latexmk for compiling), I
use:

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(setq org-latex-compiler "lualatex")
(setq org-latex-bib-compiler "biber")
(setq org-latex-pdf-process '("latexmk -f -pdf -%latex -outdir=%o %f"))

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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.