No, everything below %Footer isn't needed.  Right now it's just a place holder until I figure out how the latex blocks need to be tagged to work with the Sphinx styles.  I'm working backwards, once I get the tex to render as a pdf correctly I will go back and get the inheritance sorted out.  

One thing I did do (in latex_base), was add the bodyEnd and bogyBegin blocks to the latex base.  I needed a way to put code within the /begin{document} and /end{document} without overriding the super() used to loop through the notebook.  An [internet search][1] led me to believe that I could just override the body block and call "super(2)" (a Jinja 1.1 feature) to reference the parent of the parent, but in practice it didn't work.

[1]: http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Jinja-1.2/docs/src/inheritance.txt "Jinja 1.1 Template Inheritance"