From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple underscores crash org latex export; other exporters survive
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:46:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmwhbne5.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdee5c9e-370e-7909-dc9d-504765d29efb@gmail.com> (Scott Randby's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:37:37 -0500")
Hello,
Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> writes:
> It seems odd to me that Org would see multiple subscripts as being
> really one subscript.
It doesn't. LaTeX does. Org clearly translates a_b_c as two consecutive
subscript components. Then LaTeX visually merges them.
> I realize that Org is not a front-end to LaTeX. But the standards of
> other output formats are not the standards of LaTeX. Different output
> formats have different purposes. In this case, one could view Org as
> forcing text mode on the user when math mode is appropriate.
Who knows what mode is appropriate? Certainly not Org.
>> In Org, if you want to enter math mode, you need to explicitly request
>> it, e.g., with:
>>
>> a_{$1 + 1$}
>
> If this was true, then a_b would be exported to a\_b instead of
> a\(_\text{b}\).
Of course note, a\_b is not even a subscript. a\(_\text{b}\) is a robust
way to get "textual" subscript, which is the default for Org.
> Math mode is entered any time \(...\) is used, and in the a_b case,
> the user did not explicitly request it.
AFAIK, there is no way in LaTeX to get subscript without entering,
temporarily in this case, in math mode. Anyway, per \text{}, "b" is not
really in math mode, as you noticed.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-03 19:40 Multiple underscores crash org latex export; other exporters survive Scott Otterson
2016-12-03 21:24 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-03 22:31 ` Charles C. Berry
2016-12-04 4:53 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-04 10:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-04 16:03 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-05 8:36 ` Scott Otterson
2016-12-06 1:33 ` Scott Randby
[not found] ` <CAPY3P0QcpouDjmNpmaY6FzNSNjZyHAGufrbVtSuBzPxr6mUAzg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-06 18:18 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-06 23:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-07 2:06 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-07 11:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-10 23:24 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-11 0:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-12 3:37 ` Scott Randby
2016-12-12 7:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-12-12 15:18 ` Scott Otterson
2016-12-13 12:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-05 17:30 ` Charles C. Berry
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