[racket] Setting LaTeX Prefix, style and extra files from within file in DrR

Thank you Matthew,

As usual you have been very kind.

I've been able to modify your example to easily produce exactly what I
need.

It has also been a very useful example to learn from.

Kind regards

Stephen

On Saturday, 11 October 2014, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:03:18 +0100, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
> > I think I'm going about this the wrong way.
> >
> > What I wanted to do was switch from LaTeX (before I had to learn to
> much),
> > to racket (still learning), but bring a nice package I had from latex[1].
> > I did try dropping the location of my tma.sty code into your example[2],
> > but assuming 'its all just LaTex/Tex' seems to be wrong as the error[0] I
> > get tells me that my LaTeX definitions are missing when pdfLaTeX tries to
> > make the PDF.
>
> Unfortunately, it will be difficult to customize Scribble's Latex-based
> output without understanding Latex. Maybe we can get you just far
> enough with this customization...
>
> To answer your original question: Yes, you can use
> `make-latex-defaults` that way. Instead of using `part` directly, it's
> easiest to use `title`, so that you don't have to fill in all the
> fields of `part`.
>
> Another piece of the puzzle is that `\myname`, etc., need to appear in
> the Latex output before the title. A Scribble paragraph with the
> 'pretitle style property will do that.
>
> The enclosed "latex-default-ex.scrbl" illustrates.
>
>
> Normally, I'd expect `make-text-addition` to work in the way that
> Matthias suggested, which would mean this simplification of
> "latex-default-ex.scrbl":
>
>  @(define tma-style
>     (style
>      #f
>      (list
>       (make-tex-addition #"\\usepackage{cancel}\\usepackage{tma}"))))
>
> But `make-tex-addition` causes "tma.sty" to be pulled in later, and
> apparently that conflicts with one of the packages that Scribble uses.
> Such is life with Latex, and the simplification doesn't work.
>


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