LaTeX notes

spwoutline is a LaTeX class for use with Org-mode that I wrote because I wanted to be able to export my reading and lecture notes into a indented outline. It’s not perfect with some of it’s spacing, but it’s certainly good enough for most purposes.

Here’s the class, released under the GNU GPL 3.

Here’s the Org-mode config:

(add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
             '("spwoutline"
               "\\documentclass{spwoutline}"
               ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
               ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
               ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")))
(setq org-export-latex-low-levels '("\\begin{lowitemize}\\setlength{\\parindent}{2em}" "\\end{lowitemize}" "\\item \\textbf{%s}\\indent %s")) ; four slashes used to be a \\par

; used after things like e.g. to prevent a double space
(setq org-entities-user '(("space" "\\ " nil " " " " " " " ")))

Here’s an example of how I use it:

* DONE Mill’s utilitarianism
CLOSED: [2011-05-28 Sat 10:30]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2011-05-28 Sat 10:30]
:END:
:PROPERTIES:
:EXPORT_TITLE: Ethics essay #4: Mill’s utilitarianism
:EXPORT_DATE: May 2011
:EXPORT_OPTIONS: toc:nil todo:nil <:nil
:LaTeX_CLASS: spwoutline
:END:
What’s really wrong with utilitarianism?

Reading list
** DONE Fourth ethics essay                                     :NOEXPORT:
CLOSED: [2011-05-24 Tue 22:06]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2011-05-24 Tue 22:06]
:END:
:PROPERTIES:
:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ethics-essay-utilitarianism
:EXPORT_AUTHOR: Sean Whitton
:EXPORT_DATE: May 2011
:EXPORT_TITLE: What’s really wrong with utilitarianism?
:EXPORT_OPTIONS: todo:nil toc:nil skip:t <:nil
:LaTeX_CLASS: spwessay
:END:
DEADLINE: <2011-05-25 Wed 10:00> SCHEDULED: <2011-05-24 Tue>
*** 
Utilitarianism is the combination of consequentialism and a eudaimonic
[…]
** DONE Mill: Utilitarianism, esp. chs. 2 & 4
CLOSED: [2011-05-23 Mon 14:24]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "NEXT"       [2011-05-23 Mon 14:24]
:END:
*** Chapter 2—What utilitarianism is
**** Pleasure and pain
[…]

Here’s a yasnippet snippet which I use to set this up each time.

I also have a BiBTeX for philosophy using jurabib setup.