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From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: info org section 3.1
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:24:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP14C2C49F364695C0E3BE38BBAF0@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1209070403270.41867@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (Jude DaShiell's message of "Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:07:28 -0400 (EDT)")

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Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:

Hi Jude:

> Something is undocumented and broken.  Attempting to create the table 
> documented in section 3.1 of the manual generates a beep and the message:
> Symbol's value as variable is void: org-use-sub-superscripts
> at the bottom of the screen and hitting tab just tells me I'm at the 
> beginning of the buffer after that operation.  After I keyed in the 
> example I tried c-c c-ret because writing a second line and putting |- on 
> it caused the same problem to happen.

Something is very wrong with your installation- the example works fine
here. It seems like your org.el is not loaded properly since
"org-use-sub-superscripts" is defined there:

,----[ Output of C-h v org-use-sub-superscripts]
| org-use-sub-superscripts is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is t
| 
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means interpret "_" and "^" for export.
| When this option is turned on, you can use TeX-like syntax for sub- and
| superscripts.  Several characters after "_" or "^" will be
| considered as a single item - so grouping with {} is normally not
| needed.  For example, the following things will be parsed as single
| sub- or superscripts.
| 
|  10^24   or   10^tau     several digits will be considered 1 item.
|  10^-12  or   10^-tau    a leading sign with digits or a word
|  x^2-y^3                 will be read as x^2 - y^3, because items are
| 			 terminated by almost any nonword/nondigit char.
|  x_{i^2} or   x^(2-i)    braces or parenthesis do grouping.
| 
| Still, ambiguity is possible - so when in doubt use {} to enclose the
| sub/superscript.  If you set this variable to the symbol `{}',
| the braces are *required* in order to trigger interpretations as
| sub/superscript.  This can be helpful in documents that need "_"
| frequently in plain text.
| 
| Not all export backends support this, but HTML does.
| 
| This option can also be set with the #+OPTIONS line, e.g. "^:nil".
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 24.1 of Emacs.
`----

Cheers,
Charles

-- 
"All language designers are arrogant.  Goes with the territory..."
(By Larry Wall)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07  8:07 info org section 3.1 Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07  8:24 ` Charles Philip Chan [this message]
2012-09-07  8:39   ` Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07  8:53     ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-07  9:16       ` Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07  9:27         ` Ian Barton
2012-09-07  9:36         ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-07 19:09     ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-08  0:07       ` Jude DaShiell

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