Re: About entering latex code in an org file

From: Curiouslearn <curiouslearn@gmail.com>
To: Pierre de Buyl <pdebuyl@chem.utoronto.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About entering latex code in an org file
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:22:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-SFnrLr4owm9g8DK1HrH+7P9j15L6OYH5Wuf7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C6C2588-A514-49BA-8C82-D1F1EDD0F6AA@chem.utoronto.ca>

Hi Pierre,

I tried to enclose it manually, however, the conversion inserts its
own $ signs preceded by a slash. There were some stray $ signs left in
the document after conversion.

Thanks.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Pierre de Buyl
<pdebuyl@chem.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am no expert either but I think that the automated detection of latex
> snippets (that is, no explicit $) will only enclose in $ parts that cannot
> be reproduced in text.
>
> I suggest that if you want a complete expression like \pi_{g}  \geq  0.05 to
> be translated to $\pi_{g}  \geq  0.05$ instead of $\pi$$_{g}$  \geq  0.05
> you should do the enclosing manually.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le 10 déc. 10 à 10:17, Curiouslearn a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to both emacs and org-mode. Org-mode sounds really cool and I
>> am trying to use it to make notes for a project. I have some latex
>> symbols that I need to enter in the file.
>> As a background:
>> (1) I read in the manual that for latex code I do not need to enclose
>> math inside $ $.
>> (2) I have many words with "_" in the their names, so as mentioned in
>> the manual, I added
>> #+OPTIONS: ^:{}
>> #+OPTIONS: _:{}
>> to my .org file.
>>
>> In fact, the my file is
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> #+OPTIONS: ^:{}
>> #+OPTIONS: _:{}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parskip}{2ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex}
>> #+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parindent}{0in}
>>
>> * TODO Write an aspiration_review function
>>  The function should do the following:
>>  1. Investigates if \pi_{g}  \geq  0.05  and \bar{\pi} \geq  ASP_LEVEL
>>
>>
>> ** Investigate if
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The problem is that when I export this using 'C-c C- e l' to latex,
>> some parts that should be enclosed in $ $ sign are not enclosed. This
>> is the relevant line copied and pasted from the exported .tex file
>>
>> \item Investigates if $\pi$$_\{g\}$  \geq  0.05  and \bar{\pi} \geq
>> ASP\_{}LEVEL
>>
>> Can someone please let me know what is happening?
>>
>> Thanks very much for all those who have been working on org-mode.
>>
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