Comments on: Emacs Muse Aliases

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:32:37 +0000

Since your comment I’ve been taking a look through the documentation…

Yes, take a look at the Muse manual

Oops, looks like I need to learn to read properly. Cheers Peter

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:36:01 +0000

Yes, take a look at the Muse manual, see section 10.5 “Parameters used for defining styles”.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:59:05 +0000

No worries Peter Since your comment I’ve been taking a look through the documentation and examples. Is there a definitive list of keyword parameters that muse-derive-style takes?

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:53:11 +0000

Here is how I create a new LaTeX based style, but with a different header than the default:

(muse-derive-style “pdf-logo-article” “pdf”
:header “/path/to/file”)

I do the same trick for HTML:

(muse-derive-style “printable-xhtml” “xhtml”
:header ‘pmade-muse-html-header)

Sorry I didn’t include this in my first comment.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:33:07 +0000

Hi Peter,

Would you like to share that 1 line of elisp with my readers and I?

Thanks

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:25:35 +0000

Muse does allow you to derive new styles from existing ones. In this case, your new style inherits all the variables and functions from the parent style, and you can override them for customization.

I use this technique all the time, e.g. different styles use different LaTeX headers and footers. It also very clean, a new style with a different LaTeX header is only 1 line of elisp.