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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] exporting links with underscores
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:59:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsdefizo.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87359fx9mg.fsf@t14.reltub.ca>

Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:

> The manual does not indicate that underscores need to be escaped in
> links (and they can't be, as far as I can tell). The latex and html
> exporters interpret them as the start of a subscript.
>
> The link =[[mailto:ex_ample@ex.com][ex_ample]]= is expected to export
> to =\href{mailto:ex_ample@ex.com}{ex_ample}= but instead, we get
> [[mailto:ex_ample@ex.com][ex_ample]] exports to (in latex): =\href{mailto:ex\_ample@ex.com}{ex\textsubscript{ample}}=

This is expected. You mixed URL part of the link and the description.
Link description can have same formatting as any other Org text.
So, underscores are indeed treated as markup.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-17 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-16 22:32 [BUG] exporting links with underscores Leo Butler
2022-12-17  4:08 ` Mike Gauland
2022-12-18 16:09   ` Leo Butler
2022-12-17  9:59 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]

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