On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:21:43 +0200, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> wrote:
> 
> Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > In my org-mode document, I have a special sequence to switch to a Japanese
> > font defined as \J.  When using this, I have to do something like {\J
> > (Japanese characters here}.  However, when I run the org-mode export, the
> > braces "{" and "}" are escaped as \{ and \} and thus loosing their
> > function.
> 
> yes.
> 
> but why don't you change the sequence? I mean:
> 
> from:
> 
> hello {\J ウ}
> 
> to 
> 
> hello  [\J ウ ] or: (\J ウ)
> 
> [] and () are not escaped
> 
> cheers,
> Giovanni

I think because the {}'s define a scope in latex and so the \J only
affects text surrounded by the {}.


For Christian, what about "\J{ text }" instead as org is careful to
let this type of construct go through unchanged, if I understand
correctly.  This does depend on how you have defined J but possibly a
slight redefinition would work (\newcommand{\J}[1]{.... #1}).

HTH,
eric