Re: Latex export - footnotes and emphasis

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Latex export - footnotes and emphasis
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:41:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A05960B5-FAEB-4BF1-BB34-F518CBE8FDB2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0e1fe620903300227i7039066xee8b501fc1ddc2c9@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Scot Becker wrote:

> I can confirm this.
>
> Another related issue is that italics and bold do not mix in latex  
> export.  You can't do something like this:
>
> /An italicized sentence with a *bold* bit./  or *vice /versa/*.

Nested emphasis is indeed not possible.

However, as a LaTeX user, I think you can do

/An italicized sentence with a \textbf{bold} bit./

>
> Also, and this may be unavoidable without adding significant  
> complexity to the export engine.

Indeed.

>   But you can't, e.g.
> /carry your emphasis on until after the punctuation is over./    
> (It's been a while since I tested this.  I'll check it out again  
> today).

This does work, I think.

> For LaTeX export in particular, it would be nice to have finer  
> control over just where the emphasis goes.  For periods it's not  
> generally an issue :-), but some of the taller punctuation get into  
> fistfights with their text if they aren't allowed to be italicized  
> too.

Emphasis is one of the nightmares, and I will only work
on this at gun point :-)

- Carsten

>
> Scot
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>  
> wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> When I export a footnote that begins with emphasis/italics markup, the
> markup is not converted to \emph in the LaTeX output.
>
> E.g., the following source...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+title: Test
>
> This is a footnote.[fn:footnote]
>
> [fn:footnote] /Test./
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is exported as (some of preamble omitted):
>
> ,----
> | \title{Test}
> | \author{Matthew Lundin}
> | \date{March 28, 2009}
> |
> | \begin{document}
> |
> | \maketitle
> |
> | \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
> | \tableofcontents
> | \vspace*{1cm}
> |
> |
> | This is a footnote.\footnote{/Test./ }
> |
> |
> |
> | \end{document}
> `----
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
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