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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protect active characters such as `~' when exporting to
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:42:17 -0500
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Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> Hello,
>
> When ~code~ is converted to LaTeX, it becomes \verb~code~; i.e., it uses
> a potentially "dangerous" character, in this case `~' which is active.
>
> In most cases, it is unnoticeable, but in some environments, it breaks.
>
> The solution is to protect the command, what the attached patch does.
>

I'm not sure it solves the problem. I had looked at this problem five
years ago and had concluded that \protect was a bust, because \verb is
special - see

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14256/focus=14257

Maybe I got it wrong back then, but I thought I'd bring it to your
attention.

Nick