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Subject: Re: [Bug] Abstract block prematurely ended by asterisk
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On 1/9/11 12:08 PM, David Maus wrote:
> At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:51:32 -0500,
> Jeff Horn wrote:
>>
>> Title says it all. The following code does not export correctly.
>> (Reproduced from memory can anyone else confirm?)
>>
>> #+BEGIN_ABSTRACT
>> *Bold Text.* This is a sentence.
>> #+END_ABSTRACT
>>
>> The LaTeX code produced is (in full)
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC latex
>> \begin{ABSTRACT}
>> *Bold
>> #+END_SRC

I cannot confirm this. I get the expected output:

\begin{ABSTRACT}
\textbf{Bold Text.} This is a sentence.
\end{ABSTRACT}

>>
>> Note the lack of a closing environment and the truncated content. I
>> remember pdflatex complaining that "ABSTRACT" is an invalid
>> environment, but don't recall whether that was related to the asterisk
>> issue.

Try it lower case:
#+begin_abstract

Org isn't sensitive about case in special block types, but LaTeX is.

>>
>> Using org-mode 7.4 in emacs 23.2.
>
> Where is the ABSTRACT block defined?  No such block seems to be known
> by Org 7.4 running with emacs -Q.

Arbitrary block types are provided by org-special-blocks, a contrib 
(slated for inclusion into the next core Org, if I remember Bastien's 
announcement correctly).

HTH,
Christian