* [BUG] Export of sub- and superscripts to LaTeX inconsistent in tables?
@ 2012-06-21 13:24 Yu
2012-06-21 14:13 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Yu @ 2012-06-21 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello!
When I use superscripts/subscripts in tables, they are incorrectly
exported to LaTeX -- the placement of math-mode marks ($), braces ({,
}) seems mixed up.
As an example an excerpt of my current laboratory book.
========================
| Calculation | Zn layers | E_tot [eV/atom] (new) |
(interpolated) | \Delta{}E_tot [meV/atom] |
|---------------------+-----------+----------------------+----------------+-------------------|
[...]
The energy difference \Delta{}E_tot seems [...]
========================
This gets exported as:
========================
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lllll}
Calculation & Zn layers & E_tot [eV/atom] (new) & (interpolated) & \D\
elta\{}E_tot [meV/atom] \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
The energy difference $\Delta${}E$_{\mathrm{tot}}$ seems [\ldots{}]
========================
Outside the table it works as expected.
You can see 3 errors in the export of "\Delta{}E_tot" to latex in the table:
1. There are no $ marks. During PDF-Conversion this causes
"! Extra }, or forgotten $" messages.
2. The braces around the subscript are missing -- only the first
character thus is
recognized as a subscript by (pdf)latex.
3. For some reason, the opening brace after Delta is escaped.
The problem doesn't depend on the specific case of a LaTeX entity
before the subscript (i.e. \Delta{}). It occurs too throughout the
document for combinations like "E_gb", though of course the escaped
brace ( \{} ) doesn't occur there.
When explicitly writing "E_{tot}" in the table, this was exported as
"E_\{tot\}", which is just as unexpected.
I tested this with a freshly pulled version from the git repository
and with the org-mode sample above as the contents of a minimal file
with the same result.
king regards, Yu
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2012-06-21 13:24 [BUG] Export of sub- and superscripts to LaTeX inconsistent in tables? Yu
@ 2012-06-21 14:13 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-06-21 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yu; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
Yu <yu_icq@gmx.at> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When I use superscripts/subscripts in tables, they are incorrectly
> exported to LaTeX -- the placement of math-mode marks ($), braces ({,
> }) seems mixed up.
>
> As an example an excerpt of my current laboratory book.
>
> ========================
> | Calculation | Zn layers | E_tot [eV/atom] (new) |
> (interpolated) | \Delta{}E_tot [meV/atom] |
> |---------------------+-----------+----------------------+----------------+-------------------|
> [...]
> The energy difference \Delta{}E_tot seems [...]
> ========================
>
> This gets exported as:
> ========================
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{lllll}
> Calculation & Zn layers & E_tot [eV/atom] (new) & (interpolated) & \D\
> elta\{}E_tot [meV/atom] \\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
>
>
> The energy difference $\Delta${}E$_{\mathrm{tot}}$ seems [\ldots{}]
> ========================
>
> Outside the table it works as expected.
>
> You can see 3 errors in the export of "\Delta{}E_tot" to latex in the table:
> 1. There are no $ marks. During PDF-Conversion this causes
> "! Extra }, or forgotten $" messages.
> 2. The braces around the subscript are missing -- only the first
> character thus is
> recognized as a subscript by (pdf)latex.
> 3. For some reason, the opening brace after Delta is escaped.
>
> The problem doesn't depend on the specific case of a LaTeX entity
> before the subscript (i.e. \Delta{}). It occurs too throughout the
> document for combinations like "E_gb", though of course the escaped
> brace ( \{} ) doesn't occur there.
>
> When explicitly writing "E_{tot}" in the table, this was exported as
> "E_\{tot\}", which is just as unexpected.
>
> I tested this with a freshly pulled version from the git repository
> and with the org-mode sample above as the contents of a minimal file
> with the same result.
>
I think you'll be happier with the new exporter: it does this correctly
I think, and if you find other problems, I'm sure Nicolas will be happy
to fix them.
At the risk of putting words into Bastien's mouth, I would say that at
this point, the old latex exporter should probably be considered
unmaintained: nobody is putting much time into it.
To use the new exporter, see a post of mine from a couple of days ago:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/56993/focus=57007
HTH,
Nick
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