I am not sure if this is a bug in orgmode latex exporter or whether it is specific to LaTeX and that there is some code that will take care of this. First, attached is a copy of my LaTeX setup. I recently added \\usepackage[npthousnadsep{,}]{numprint} to my setup. When I export the following in line code This is inline src_emacs-lisp[:var totalcommissions=TOTALCOM[-1,-1] fmt="%.2f"]{(format fmt totalcommissions)} {{{results(=99999.99=)}}} for some reason the thousands separator is place above the exported line, thus , This is inline 99999.99 for some reason Likewise, a source block, e.g. ** Block This is a block #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var totalcommissions=TOTALCOM[-1,-1] fmt="%.2f" :exports results (format fmt totalcommissions) #+end_src #+RESULTS: : 99999.99 for the same code exports as , This is a block 99999.99 |{group-separator ={,}| for the same code Of course I expected 99,999.99 in both cases. I also tried this with \\usepackage{siunitx} and \\usepackage[group-separator={,}]{siunitx} (numprint separator was removed) and had the same results Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release 8.3.4 -907-g65e437 @ usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp) GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86 64 -pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian Charlie Millar