Hi Matthew,

I have worked on this part of the LaTeX exporter.  Among other things,  
I now export
these headers as an itemize list by default, parallel to the HTML  
exporter.

You can customize org-export-latex-low-levels to specify what exactly  
you want, you can get description or enumerate lists as well.

Let me know if the problems now go away.

- Carsten

On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

>
> Hi Carsten,
>
>>>>> 2. Headlines greater than n when H:n (e.g., level three headlines
>>>>> when H
>>>>> is set to 2) are exported as description lists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this the intended behavior?
>>>>
>>>> This is how Bastien designed it, and it is similar to the HTML way,
>>>> turning these into lists.  It works fine if there is any text  
>>>> before
>>>> the plain list bullets.
>>>>
>>>
>>> When I use a paragraph of text instead of plain list bullets, the
>>> subsequent paragraph becomes the definition of the headline, which
>>> becomes the list label. Is this correct?
>>
>> I am confused, could you make a detailed example, please?
>
> Sorry for being unclear. Take, for instance, the following source  
> file:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+OPTIONS: H:2
>
> * This is the first heading
>
> Here is some text after the first heading.
>
> ** This is the second heading
>
> Here is some text after the second heading.
>
> *** This is the third heading
>
> Here is some text after the third heading.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This outputs to tex as follows (preamble excluded):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \section{This is the first heading}
> \label{sec-1}
>
>
> Here is some text after the first heading.
>
> \subsection{This is the second heading}
> \label{sec-1.1}
>
>
> Here is some text after the second heading.
>
> \begin{description}
>
> \item[This is the third heading]\label{sec-1.1.1}
>
>
>
> Here is some text after the third heading.
> \end{description}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When latex is run, the output looks like this. Note how the text after
> the third heading is folded into the same line:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 1 This is the first heading
>
> Here is some text after the first heading.
>
> 1.1 This is the second heading
>
> Here is some text after the second heading.
>
> This is the third heading Here is some text after the third heading.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> - Matt