Or what about \J{japanese characters here}? I do the same with Hebrew, \heb{לִפְנֵי יְהוָה} and (without claiming to have done extensive testing), it seems to work. Org mode is set up to let arbitrary macros of the format \mymacro{data} pass through to LaTeX. You might not even have to change your definitions. Scot On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > Christian Wittern writes: > > > In my org-mode document, I have a special sequence to switch to a > Japanese > > font defined as \J. When using this, I have to do something like {\J > > (Japanese characters here}. However, when I run the org-mode export, the > > braces "{" and "}" are escaped as \{ and \} and thus loosing their > > function. > > yes. > > but why don't you change the sequence? I mean: > > from: > > hello {\J ウ} > > to > > hello [\J ウ ] or: (\J ウ) > > [] and () are not escaped > > cheers, > Giovanni > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >