Mac – Customizing org-mode export template

For LaTeX output, here are some options for getting cleaner output:

The function org-export-as-latex actually takes several parameters, one of which is a flag called BODY-ONLY.

The prototype for this function is (org-export-as-latex ARG &optional HIDDEN EXT-PLIST TO-BUFFER BODY-ONLY PUB-DIR) for OrgMode 7.5.

You can try the output by evaluating the LISP call explicitly:

M-: (org-export-as-latex nil nil nil nil t) RET

where the t symbol indicates the body-only option. This will create a new buffer with the LaTeX output. (RET means pressing the return key)

A shortcut for the above is to call org-export-region-as-latex. This is an interactive function which you can call with M-x. Its only argument is the body-only flag.

For example, you can select the whole buffer (via C-x h), then call this function with a prefix argument (to give a non-nil value to body-only):

C-u M-x org-export-region-to-latex RET

Now you'll have a new buffer selected with the LaTeX output and no header / footer / titles / TOC added.

This idea works also with org-export-region-as-html.

There is also a contributed package org-export-generic that lets you define an exporter completely: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-export-generic.html

P.S. I'm using the latest development version of OrgMode 7.5

The documentation where to change the exporter for source code can be found in the documentation for org-export-format-source-code-or-example, C-h f org-export-format-source-code-or-example:

...
Check if a function by name "org--format-source-code-or-example" is bound. If yes, use it as the custom formatter. Otherwise, use the default formatter. Default formatters are provided for docbook, html, latex and ascii backends. For example, use `org-html-format-source-code-or-example' to provide a custom formatter for export to "html".
...

An example export function can be found here (l. 2635). Modified to match your requierments:

(defun org-html-format-source-code-or-example
  (lines lang caption textareap cols rows num cont rpllbl fmt)
  (setq lines
    (concat
     "<pre name=\"code\" class=\"" lang "\">\n"
     (cond
      (textareap
       (concat
        (format "<p>\n<textarea cols=\"%d\" rows=\"%d\">"
            cols rows)
        lines "</textarea>\n</p>\n"))
      (t
       (with-temp-buffer
         (insert lines)
         (goto-char (point-min))
         (while (re-search-forward "[<>&]" nil t)
           (replace-match (cdr (assq (char-before)
                     '((?&."&amp;")(?<."&lt;")(?>."&gt;"))))
                  t t))
         (buffer-string))))
     "</pre>\n"))
  (unless textareap
    (setq lines (org-export-number-lines lines 1 1 num cont rpllbl fmt)))  
  lines)

After evaluation (copy to *scratch* and run M-x eval-buffer, or place in your .emacs and restart) html export exports

#+BEGIN_SRC java
public class UserBuilder
{
    private string _firstName;
    private string _lastName;
}
#+END_SRC

as

<pre name="code" class="java">
public class UserBuilder
{
    private string _firstName;
    private string _lastName;
}
</pre>

(Had to switch languages in the example because my emacs doesn't know c# but it works for all languages).