I had the same problem. As a workaround I used \begingroup and \endgroup 
to denote {}

Best regards,
Haik

17.04.2010 20:13 Giulio Fella kirjutas:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I am afraid I know nothing about Tex, so I cannot comment on that. But
> all my Latex references
> e.g.http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors
>
> give that as the correct syntax for \color, as opposed to e.g. \textcolor
> which has the syntax you report.
>
> But more generally, given that 90% of latex braces are just part of
> command syntax I have a feeling that it would be more economical to
> require the user to escape those braces which are indeed to be escaped
> in Latex. I think Carsten has been correcting quite a number of these
> "escape braces" bugs and I am not sure that the feature is worth his
> time.
>
> giulio
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >/I think the correct would be using Latex syntax like 
> \color{red}{whatever}./
> >
> >/If you write using plain Tex syntax like {\color{red}whatever} org/
> >/will not understand that the outer curly brackets are part of the/
> >/command./
> >
> >
> >/-- Darlan/
> >
> >/2010/4/16 Giulio Fella <address@hidden>:/
> >/> Hi,/
> >/>/
> >/> I have just upgraded from 6.33trans to 6.35g-55-g36d3e hoping to solve/
> >/> a problem with escaping braces./
> >/>/
> >/> With LaTex_CLASS: beamer/
> >/>/
> >/> Something like/
> >/> {\color{red}whatever}/
> >/>/
> >/> exports to latex with escaped outer braces. Namely/
> >/>/
> >/> \{\color{red}whatever\}/
> >/>/
> >/> This is the same behaviour as in 6.33trans. I had read it was a bug/
> >/> which had been corrected. Is this a reappearing bug  or is there a way/
> >/> round it?/
> >/>/
> >/> Also in version 6.33 the relevant content of org-export-latex-classes/
> >/> used to be exported before that of BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA. Now it is/
> >/> parsed after it. Is there any variable I can set to reestablish the/
> >/> old behaviour?/
> >/>/
> >/> Many thanks in advance./
> >/>/
> >/> Best wishes/
> >/> Giulio/
> >/>/
> >/>/
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