From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Latex export: Differing behavior for symbols in headlines
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:36:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19863.1287678982@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:09:16 PDT." <87lj5rplxv.fsf@berkeley.edu>
Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Dear Orgsters,
>
> I am seeing differing behavior for how special symbols that appear in a
> headline are exported to LaTeX, depending on whether I export an entire
> Org document or just the current subtree.
>
> I have, for example, a file that looks like this:
>
> * Headline 1
> ** Headline 2, concerning $\alpha$ and $\beta$
>
> If I export the whole document, the $'s around \alpha and \beta are
> properly interpreted as math-mode delimiters, and Headline 2 becomes a
> section title that looks exactly as I would expect.
>
> If I export just Headline 2, however, the $'s are escaped, and show up
> as literal '$' characters in the title of the exported document.
>
> (I can't remove the $'s, because I am actually using some custom LaTeX
> commands, not special symbols like \alpha and \beta that Org would
> recognize as needing to be put in math mode.)
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1) Is this difference between whole-document vs. current-subtree export
> the expected behavior?
>
Looks like a bug to me. I can reproduce it too.
> 2) If so, what's the right way to work around it? If not, where should
> I look to try and fix it?
>
I tried using \( and \) as the inline math delimiters but that did not
work either: I got $ signs *inserted* and then latex complains about that:
foo.org:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Headline 1
** Headline 2, concerning \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
foo.tex (elided):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
...
\title{Headline 2, concerning \($\alpha$\) and \($\beta$\)}
...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 16:09 Latex export: Differing behavior for symbols in headlines Richard Lawrence
2010-10-21 16:36 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2010-10-24 3:45 ` Bug: " Richard Lawrence
2010-10-24 7:30 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-25 8:42 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
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