From: Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] ~Verbatim~ in headlines breaks LaTeX
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 22:18:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbfa63ud.fsf@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87617a65y5.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>
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On 2015-05-29 Fri 21:32, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>> * The variable ~JAVA_HOME~
>> &
>> #+END_EXAMPLE
>>
>> Exporting this to LaTeX and then compiling to PDF, produces the
>> following error:
>>
>> ! Missing $ inserted.
>> <inserted text>
>> $
>> l.35 \section{The variable \verb~JAVA_HOME~}
>>
>> Apparently, \verb is not allow in command arguments:
>>
>> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=verbwithin
>>
>> One solution is uses \cprotect:
>>
>> \cprotect\section{The variable \verb~JAVA_HOME~}
>>
>> I don’t know how the exporter works but I wouldn’t be surprised if it
>> wasn’t entirely trivial to implement this.
>>
>> The problem also exists in other situations where ~verbatim~ is used in
>> embedded contexts, for example when used in link descriptions:
>>
>> [[https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=JAVA_HOME][Google
>> ~JAVA_HOME~]]
>>
>> Is there anything that speaks against using \texttt for ~verbatim~? The
>> HTML exporter uses the code tag for ~verbatim~ and =code=.
>>
>> Titus
>
> I don't know what \cprotect does but there was a discussion of this a
> long time ago:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14256/focus=14257
>
> and back then, Carsten changed it so that verbatim in headlines used
> \texttt - but that was the old latex exporter: I take it things are
> different now?
Yes, I saw this thread after sending the previous email. According to
`org-latex-text-markup-alist', protectedtexttt should be used, which
seems like a good-enough solution for this problem. But for some reason
that doesn’t happen.
BTW, I used the latest development versions of Emacs (-Q) and Org-mode
to test this.
Titus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-30 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-30 3:38 [Bug] ~Verbatim~ in headlines breaks LaTeX Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-30 4:32 ` Nick Dokos
2015-05-30 5:18 ` Titus von der Malsburg [this message]
2015-05-30 8:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-30 15:19 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-31 8:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-05 19:28 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-06-05 21:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-05 22:58 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-06-06 7:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-06 17:32 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-06-06 22:15 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-06-06 23:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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