From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: A few quirks of org's Latex passthrough Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:22:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuQbw-0002HN-43 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:22:32 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuQbs-0002GI-2X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:22:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41902 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuQbr-0002G6-55 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:22:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f160.google.com ([209.85.219.160]:53308) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LuQbq-0007jZ-Iv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:22:26 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so345566ewy.42 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:22:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Scot Becker Cc: Org-mode ml Hi Scot, I believe these problems are now fixed - at least when trying your examples, the version I just pushed behaves correctly. - Carsten On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Scot Becker wrote: > Prompted by Chris Gray's request for org markup in Latex environment, > I thought I'd submit a note (for his sake and others') about a few > quirks of org-latex-export's handling of embedded Latex markup in org > documents. I have been puzzling with these for a while but only > discovered the problem triggers (and workarounds) this morning just > before Chris' mail arrived. These are both about inline Latex > commands: > > I use a few custom commands \mycommand{like this}, and occasionally > have to invoke the odd bit of standard LaTeX markup, for example /when > \textbf{embedding bold text} inside italics/. For the most part, > these work fine, but I've discovered the following two 'gotchas' that > happen when exporting to LaTeX. > > 1. Inline Latex commands get their final curly brace escaped with a > slash (and therefore don't work) if they spill over into another > line, i.e. if they contain one or more newlines. This is true also > for standard LaTeX commands like \textbf{} and \emph{}. > > ----------------SAMPLE------------------------ > \mycommand{So, for example this > wrapped setence gets a slash added just after the > final period and before the curly brace.} Org is quite helpfully > escaping the slash for LaTeX, apparently. > > \mycommand{no trouble if it's all on one line} > ------------------END------------------------- > > The workaround of putting all such commands on one line is no hardship > for me, since I use visual-line-mode in Emacs 23 and keep my > paragraphs as single logical lines. It might be harder for those > accustomed to hard-wrapping their paragraphs. > > > 2. If you have two inline Latex commands on the same logical line, > org's latex export doesn't treat the text between them in its usual > manner. Italics get processed, but not the latexification of quotes. > ("this" --> ``this'') For example: > > ----------------SAMPLE------------------------ > I have a short custom command to tell Latex to invoke a > Hebrew-language right-to-left environment when I want to refer to a > Hebrew phrase like this: \heb{phrase here}. But then if I "quote > something," and follow that by another \heb{phrase}, the inner > quotation marks don't get processed. Oddly enough, this problem is > only triggered when there is an inline Latex command both before and > after the quoted material on the same logical line. > > Now if you put a footnote in between those two inline Latex commands, > the output is really nutty: > > And \heb{phrase here} with a footnote[fn:: Footnote here.] I'm not > sure what funky org commands get invoked, but again, only when > bookended by an inline Latex command like \heb{phrase here}. > ------------------END------------------------- > > The nutty output is a number in square brackets like this[1], with the > following at the bottom of the document: > > \$\^{}{1}\$ Footnote here. > > This has a the opposite work-around: break the lines so those > elements are not all on the same logical line. Put in a few newlines. > Latex, of course doesn't care. Do take care not to start a newline > with the org-footnote, like this > [fn:: Org doesn't parse a footnote command which starts on its own > line.] > > > This is just "for what it's worth" to those who use org-mode as a > front-end to writing for LaTeX. > > Scot > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode