Failure with non-article documentclass

[mabney]

I use the exam documentclass which defines certain commands (e.g. \lhead). Xenops replaces this with the article document class and then fails when it encounters the \lhead command, which appears only in the preamble. Ideally, xenops would work with document classes that define commands that might appear in the preamble, for instance by using the document class of the document.

[egstatsml]

Have a look at the issue here which describes how you can set the org-format-latex-header variable to help make xenops work with other document classes

[mabney]

Thanks for pointing this out. It does provide a workaround, of sorts, but it's not entirely satisfactory. Changing org-format-latex-header in init.el doesn't really work because I have different documents that use different classes. It does work when setting it as a file local variable (with some edits), but it's pretty awkward to do this for the various different files. Ideally it should just work when specifying a different document class, but it looks like development/maintenance of the package has ended, unfortunately.

[egstatsml]

no worries, I usually set the org-format-latex-header in my .dir-locals.el file for each project and has worked really well for me. Once I have time I would like to help contribute to this package to make things a little more automatic where possible to help out dandavison :)

[dandavison]

but it looks like development/maintenance of the package has ended, unfortunately.

Hi all, I am still reading these at least. But it's true that I'm not currently doing anything where I could use Xenops and I don't currently have time for Xenops development. If anyone would like to try to contribute that would be great; it is quite fun to work on.

[mabney]

Thanks for the great package. I really enjoy using it. Time constraint issues are totally understandable. Hopefully others will be able to step in and contribute to keeping the package going and even improve the rough edges.