From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: info org section 3.1
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:39:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1209070437190.42864@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP14C2C49F364695C0E3BE38BBAF0@phx.gbl>
This happens using gnu-emacs 23.41 and org 7.9.11 and that emacs is the
current debian package version. I used git clone to install and update
org mode too.
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:
>
> Hi Jude:
>
> > Something is undocumented and broken. Attempting to create the table
> > documented in section 3.1 of the manual generates a beep and the message:
> > Symbol's value as variable is void: org-use-sub-superscripts
> > at the bottom of the screen and hitting tab just tells me I'm at the
> > beginning of the buffer after that operation. After I keyed in the
> > example I tried c-c c-ret because writing a second line and putting |- on
> > it caused the same problem to happen.
>
> Something is very wrong with your installation- the example works fine
> here. It seems like your org.el is not loaded properly since
> "org-use-sub-superscripts" is defined there:
>
> ,----[ Output of C-h v org-use-sub-superscripts]
> | org-use-sub-superscripts is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> | Its value is t
> |
> | Documentation:
> | Non-nil means interpret "_" and "^" for export.
> | When this option is turned on, you can use TeX-like syntax for sub- and
> | superscripts. Several characters after "_" or "^" will be
> | considered as a single item - so grouping with {} is normally not
> | needed. For example, the following things will be parsed as single
> | sub- or superscripts.
> |
> | 10^24 or 10^tau several digits will be considered 1 item.
> | 10^-12 or 10^-tau a leading sign with digits or a word
> | x^2-y^3 will be read as x^2 - y^3, because items are
> | terminated by almost any nonword/nondigit char.
> | x_{i^2} or x^(2-i) braces or parenthesis do grouping.
> |
> | Still, ambiguity is possible - so when in doubt use {} to enclose the
> | sub/superscript. If you set this variable to the symbol `{}',
> | the braces are *required* in order to trigger interpretations as
> | sub/superscript. This can be helpful in documents that need "_"
> | frequently in plain text.
> |
> | Not all export backends support this, but HTML does.
> |
> | This option can also be set with the #+OPTIONS line, e.g. "^:nil".
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> |
> | This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
> | version 24.1 of Emacs.
> `----
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 8:07 info org section 3.1 Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07 8:24 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-07 8:39 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2012-09-07 8:53 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-07 9:16 ` Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07 9:27 ` Ian Barton
2012-09-07 9:36 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-09-07 19:09 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-08 0:07 ` Jude DaShiell
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