Org-mode LaTeX export is easy. Place the following code in your .emacs and you're ready to go. (require 'ox-latex) (unless (boundp 'org-latex-classes) (setq org-latex-classes nil)) (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes '("article" "\\documentclass{article}" ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}"))) This tells the Org-mode LaTeX exporter to use the standard LaTeX article document class by default and to map