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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: How to get \\ in title or author?
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:30 PM, S=E9bastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Bastien,
>
> Bastien wrote:
>> S=E9bastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
>>
>>> For sure, it'd be better if `\\' wasn't converted at all when =20
>>> exporting to
>>> LaTeX (for the ones in the TITLE and AUTHOR meta-tags, at least).
>>
>> But how do you insert a backlash in the resulting div/ps/pdf then? My
>> expectation was that converting \\ into \textbackslash was more =20
>> common than
>> inserting linebreaks in title (of which I didn't think in fact...)
>
> As Tim told:
>
>   "So, from the perspective of standard LaTeX classes, any instance =20=

> of \\ in
>    the \author{} command should not be converted during export."
>
> I wanted to express that there are certainly more cases where you =20
> want the
> backslashes in the AUTHOR and TITLE meta-tags to be passed as is, than
> converted to their LaTeX equivalent.
>
> But, your question makes sense: what if one really wants a backslash =20=

> in the
> author list or in the title...
>
> Problem stays for the authors as it seems that \newline is not good =20=

> for the
> standard article class...

Hi,

A workaround is this:

     #+LaTeX_HEADER: \def\dblbackslash{\\}

     \author{Einstein \dblbackslash{} Bose}





- Carsten