Introduction

This Org Babel implementation is aimed to people who like tinkering with TeX.

Examples

See ./examples.org.

Supported header arguments

:documentclass

Allowed value: string.

A string that is used after \documentclass.

This header argument only has effect when expand is set to yes.

:preamble

Allowed value: string.

string that is located after the \documentclass and before the document environment.

This header argument only has effect when expand is set to yes.

:usepackage

Allowed value: List of strings.

It defines the packages that are included in the file.

This header argument only has effect when expand is set to yes.

:environment

Allowed value: string.

This header argument sets the environment that is used to enclose the content of the code block.

This header argument only has effect when expand is set to yes.

:expand

Allowed values: yes and no

If yes, the header arguments documentclass, preamble, usepackage, and environment are used. If no, those header arguments are not used.

:build-command

Allowed value: List of lists of strings.

Defines the compilation steps for compiling the document.

Example: :build-command '(("pdflatex" jobname) ("bibtex" jobname) ("pdflatex" jobname) ("pdflatex" jobname))

:tangle-build-command

Allowed values: yes and no

Determines whether a comment with compilation instructions need to be included in the tangled file.

:keep-files

Allowed values: List of regular expressions

Determines which files are not deleted when cleaning the temporary directory where the compilation occurs.

:prologue and :epilogue

These header arguments is documented in the Org Mode info manual in the section “Inserting headers and footers”.