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From: "David P. Moulton" <moulton@idaccr.org>
Subject: Re: correct spaces after colons with LaTeX
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:10:55 -0500 (EST)
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Cc: David Moulton <moulton@idaccr.org>, "Noah B. Lavine" <noah@idaccr.org>

I found a reasonable solution: using ":\;" with no trailing space gives
the right amount of space after the colon.

David

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, David P. Moulton wrote:

> Hi LaTeX org-moders.
>
> I'm trying to get a non-sentence-ending space after a colon in LaTeX
> with org-mode.  When I put a backslash after a colon to get the ordinary
> end-of-word space, org-mode changes it to "\backslash", which puts a
> backslash in the text.  I also tried "\space", but that gave the large
> space.  Similarly, ":~" was changed into ":\tilde".
>
> Is there some way I can escape my backslash so that org-mode will pass
> it to LaTeX as an actual backslash?  Or is there another good way to
> get org-mode to tell LaTeX that I'm not ending a sentence with my colon?
>
> Thanks,
> David Moulton
>