When exporting to latex from within an org subtree with properties like EXPORT_AUTHOR set in a way to extend latex title capabilities (i.e. adding instructor and institutional affiliation, ref [[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation]]) the "\\" string within the org property gets escaped to "$\backslash$\" during export. Latex then doesn't treat this as a newline, deviating from expected behaviour This is the org property that is used during latex export #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE :EXPORT_AUTHOR: Gabriel S. X. Smith\\ CMST220\\ Professor Voso #+END_EXAMPLE This is the expected org to latex conversion #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE \author{Gabriel S. X. Smith\\ CMST220\\ Professor Voso} #+END_EXAMPLE This is the actual org to latex conversion #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE \author{Gabriel S. X. Smith$\backslash$\ CMST220$\backslash$\ Professor Voso} #+END_EXAMPLE If you are familiar with latex you can see that this breaks the newlines that would be typeset in the author section of the title by the latex compiler. Emacs : GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30) of 2020-05-02 Package: Org mode version 9.3.3 (release_9.3.3-405-g817c0c @ /home/flare/.emacs.d/lisp/org-mode/lisp/) current state: ============== (setq org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-latex-listings 'minted org-link-shell-confirm-function 'yes-or-no-p org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) org-html-format-inlinetask-function 'org-html-format-inlinetask-default-function org-edit-src-content-indentation 0 org-odt-format-headline-function 'org-odt-format-headline-default-function org-latex-pdf-process '("%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'" "%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'" "biber %f" "%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'") org-agenda-files '("~/Documents/school/High School/MaiaLearning/TODO.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/GEO105/Lecture Notes.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/SITREP.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/Expenses.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/JAPN121/Lecture Notes.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/JAPN121/TODO.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/CMST220/TODO.org" "~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/GEO105/TODO.org" "~/Documents/Personal Work/bin_hacking_local/TODO.org" "~/Documents/TODO.org" "~/TODO.org") org-ascii-format-inlinetask-function 'org-ascii-format-inlinetask-default org-reveal-start-hook '(org-decrypt-entry) org-mode-hook '(#[0 "\301\211\207" [imenu-create-index-function org-imenu-get-tree] 2] #[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-all append local] 5] #[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5] org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes (lambda nil "Custom keybinds for org mode" (interactive) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l l") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+LATEX:")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l h") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+LATEX_HEADER:")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l a") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+ATTR_LATEX:")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i o c") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+BEGIN_COMMENT") (newline 2) (insert "#+END_COMMENT") (previous-line 1)) ) ) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i o e") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE") (newline 2) (insert "#+END_EXAMPLE") (previous-line 1)) ) ) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i c c") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "C")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i c m") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "makefile")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c i c s") (quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "shell")))) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c l s") (quote org-store-link)) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c l i") (quote org-insert-link)) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c o t w") (quote org-table-wrap-region)) (local-set-key (kbd "C-c m g l") (quote make-geo-item-org-item)) (load-library "org-beautify-theme") (org-bullets-mode t)) ) org-odt-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS)"] org-archive-hook '(org-attach-archive-delete-maybe) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-bibtex-headline-format-function #[257 "\300\236A\207" [:title] 3 "\n\n(fn ENTRY)"] org-latex-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn _ CONTENTS)"] org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-latex-compiler "xelatex" org-tab-first-hook '(org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-babel-load-languages '((C . t) (ditaa . t) (shell . t) (python . t)) org-ascii-format-drawer-function #[771 "\207" [] 4 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS WIDTH)"] org-agenda-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region nil org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-log-into-drawer "LOGBOOK" org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-activate org-babel-speed-command-activate) org-attach-id-dir "Attachments/" org-odt-format-inlinetask-function 'org-odt-format-inlinetask-default-function org-babel-tangle-lang-exts '(("python" . 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