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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Delimiting TeX-fragments
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:53:51 +0200
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To: Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de>
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Hi Stefan,

this is a difficult problem, I would use

File\mbox{$\rarr$}Open

or so.  Org-mode does protect macros with an argument entirely.
However, this will not work well for HTML export - but maybe you
only need LaTeX?????

- Carsten

On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in a software documentation we want to refer to menu entries like =20
> this:
>
> [menu][arrow right][menu entry]
>
> no spaces between the text and the arrow.
>
> (usually, we would use a syntax like
> "menu:menu entry"
> but this is interpreted by org as an internal link?)
>
> We find that:
>
> (1) File\rarrOpen
> does not work: \rarr is not recognized
>
> (2) File\rarr Open
> leaves a blank space before the "Open"
>
> (3) Datei\rarr=D6ffnen
> works as expected - but only if \rarr is followed by a special =20
> character like an Umlaut
>
> This leads to the more general question on how to deliminate a Tex-=20
> like fragment without "side effects". It is also important for =20
> inserting non-breaking space as
>
> (4) Do\nbsp Not\nbsp Break
> will not work because of the additional spaces (is there a better =20
> way to insert "nbsp"?).
>
> (5) \alpha\nbsp\beta
> does work as expected
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Stefan
> --=20
> Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
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