Aloha Thomas, Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem persists! Only replacing the "0" with an "a" helps. ---------------------------------------------- #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer #+startup: beamer * Lanx ** title #+BEGIN_Example perl grep { $_ ->[a] } # <- 0 fails X{1,2,3} X{1,2,3} X{1,2,3}; #+END_Example ---------------------------------------------- type C-c C-e d (or C-c C-e L)