On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:

I'm using macros to format names in a LaTeX export, like so:

on export and LaTeX will format it. That works fine. But in an index of names,
if I want

{{{m(Denton, William)}}}

then Org takes that as two arguments to the macro, and outputs

\m{Denton}

Is there a way to get around this?

The comma needs to be backslash escaped.

{{{m(Denton\, William)}}}

Ref: (org) Macro Replacement

> (1) Since commas separate the arguments, commas within arguments have
to be escaped with the backslash character. So only those backslash
characters before a comma need escaping with another backslash
character.