From: Bastien Guerry <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTeX special characters 8.3.1
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:03:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mjzqtbi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87614py5mp.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:52:46 +0200")
Hi Rasmus,
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Until 8.3.1, I needed to use \% in an org document in order to get the
>> % symbol displayed when exporting to LaTeX. I just discovered that \%
>> messes up the exported document, and that using % only works. I've
>> also experimented with \$ and $ and found the same behavior.
>>
>> I've looked through the 8.3.1 changes document, but I can't find
>> reference to this change. Since I use special characters frequently, I
>> need more information about this change. Where can I find it?
>
> % Is exported as "\%" in latex.
>
> $ is a mess. It's uses some heuristic to determine if it's a math snippet
> or a currency symbol.
>
> You can always use a snippet, @@latex:%@@ which is exported literally in
> the backend before the colon.
Did you find the change we could document in ORG-NEWS?
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-16 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-08 18:19 LaTeX special characters 8.3.1 Scott Randby
2015-08-08 18:24 ` Ken Mankoff
2015-08-08 18:52 ` Rasmus
2015-08-08 19:00 ` Scott Randby
2015-08-16 13:03 ` Bastien Guerry [this message]
2015-08-16 14:00 ` Rasmus
2015-08-16 14:15 ` Bastien Guerry
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