From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IG9yZyArIGJlYW1lcjogSG93IHRvIGdldCBAxaBAIHRvIGNy?= =?UTF-8?B?ZWF0ZSBcYWxlcnQ/?= Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:37:19 -0400 Message-ID: <28711.1335922639@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOVe-0008VY-67 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 21:37:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOVb-0007CW-VK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 21:37:37 -0400 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:4438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOVb-0007AC-Oq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 21:37:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stanton of "Tue\, 01 May 2012 16\:24\:38 PDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Stanton Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Richard Stanton wrote: > I've just started using orgmode to create Beamer presentations, and have a > question. > > In the worg documentation > (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer/tutorial.html), it gives > an example of how enclosing text in "@" signs is supposed to result in > highlighted red text. When I try it, I get text surrounded by two "@" > signs... > > Following suggestions from this list back in 2010, I tried customizing > org-export-latex-emphasis-alist to > > Value: (("*" "\\textbf{%s}" nil) > ("/" "\\emph{%s}" nil) > ("_" "\\underline{%s}" nil) > ("+" "\\st{%s}" nil) > ("=" "\\protectedtexttt" t) > ("~" "\\verb" t) > ("@" "\\alert{%s}" nil)) > > > but this doesn't seem to help either. > > Can anyone tell me how to get this working? > You also need to customize org-emphasis-alist. Not sure whether this qualifies as a bug or not. It probably does but even so, it's unlikely to be fixed and that's probably a *good* thing: IMNSHO, these interfaces are about the clunkiest to be found in org: they are very "heavy" for the result they produce. I hope the new exporter will clean up this area, even at the price of backward incompatibility (says he, knowing that any such will not affect him :-]) Donning my asbestos suit, Nick