From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas S. Dye" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Distinguish = and ~ delimiters in LaTeX export Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:23:47 -1000 Message-ID: References: <7D426067-ED81-42E7-B517-29F06F35EB8F@tsdye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47422 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjbwM-0004br-01 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:23:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjbwL-0004iW-1g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:23:57 -0500 Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:50462) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjbwK-0004hx-NT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:23:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: Org Mode On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Aloha Tom, > > On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > >> Aloha all, >> >> The default value of org-export-latex-emphasis-alist treats the = >> and ~ delimiters as \\verb. Both settings are ignored because org- >> export-latex-use-verb is nil by default. The = and ~ delimiters >> produce \texttt{} instead of \verb. This patch distinguishes = and >> ~ by changing the default for = to \\texttt{%s}. >> >> The docstring has also been changed to refer to org-export-latex- >> use-verb. >> >> With this patch, users exporting to LaTeX will be able to use = for >> \texttt text in LaTeX moving environments and ~ for \verb text in >> places where it is safe to use this construct. > > This is a pretty good patch, but I think we should still modify it. > Org users traditionally use =stuff= to mark code pieces, and I think > it is still important to escape special characters like ^ and ~ and > others. > > The modified patch below does the following: > > - Like your patch, it makes Org use \\verb for the ~...~ emphasis. > - For =...= emphasis, it uses a new keyword \\protectedtexttt. > This will protect special characters and then do texttt. And I > have extended the protection to include multiple hyphens by > converting > "--" to "-{}-". > > Do you agree with this solution? > > - Carsten > Aloha Carsten, Yes, I do. Your patch works here for the use cases I had in mind. I'm pleased that you were able to make the patch work for other use cases as well. Also, I like having org-export-latex-use-verb default to t instead of nil. It is nice to have the \verb command immediately at hand. Thanks for looking into this. All the best, Tom