In the documentation for org-format-latex-options, for the key :matchers, the documentation lists valid members. The last valid member is shown as "\ [" find math expressions surrounded by \ [...\] (backslash space left-bracket). The space is superfluous. Note that there are two places where this needs to be fixed. Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN Package: Org-mode version 8.2.5 (release_8.2.5-417-g455fbc @ c:/users/977315/documents/.emacs.d/elisp/org/)