From: gerard.vermeulen@posteo.net
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Emacs-orgmode
<emacs-orgmode-bounces+gerard.vermeulen=posteo.net@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Export of this table fails LuaLaTeX compilation
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 05:03:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b88fc03b3b2a4c5e025506c135712bfd@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ti6pj2$qmp$2@ciao.gmane.io>
On 12.10.2022 18:21, Max Nikulin wrote:
[...]
>>> Stewart Thomas. [BUG] Tables with square brackets do not compile in
>>> PDF (latex) export. Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:16:10 -0500.
>>> https://list.orgmode.org/CAO12V+wB18nAN0FuDPAeN94GHdt_2nbdJtc4u7n4W3HAZbaZsA@mail.gmail.com
>>>
>>> I can not figure out an easy way to separate \\ from [b] text but to
>>> prevent the problem you have discovered. I am unsure if
>>>
>>> \\[0pt]
>>>
>>> has no negative consequences and safe enough. I expect that LaTeX
>>> sources are not easy to read when fragile sequences of tokens are
>>> involved.
>>>
>>> I just have realized that some users might take advantage of earlier
>>> behavior as a feature:
>>>
>>> - item \\
>>> [1cm]
>>> - item
>>>
>>> I think that [1cm] should be treated as text, however I have no idea
>>> how to allow users to specify amount of vertical space and to not
>>> limit line break to LaTeX only. @@latex:\\[1cm]@@ is not suitable
>>> when
>>> the same text should be exported to ascii, html, etc.
[...]
> Adding \relax is my fault, I did not expect that it may break \hline.
> Such behavior should be stable over decades. The question is how to
> allow users to have square brackets in the beginning of the line
> following \\ and not break some use case.
>
>> 2. On my systems ws-butler removes the trailing whitespace.
>> 3. I edited your example with nano to add the trailing space after
>> \relax, but it still does not compile.
>
> Sorry, I did not get your point with trailing space. LaTeX ignores
> spaces after commands (e.g. "a\relax b" becomes "ab") and in the
> beginning of the line. What I am afraid of is unintentionally
> introduce white space at the beginning of the line, e.g. if
> | a |
> | b |
> |---|
> is exported as
> {} a \\
> {} b \\
> \hline
> then cell contents will be " a" and " b", not "a" and "b".
> \relax a \\
> \relax b \\
> \hline
> has no such problem.
Sorry, I have misread or misunderstood what \relax does with spaces.
Thank you for your patient explanation -- Gerard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-12 3:15 Export of this table fails LuaLaTeX compilation gerard.vermeulen
2022-10-12 4:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-12 4:45 ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-12 5:15 ` gerard.vermeulen
2022-10-12 5:55 ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-12 7:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-12 8:20 ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-13 2:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-13 4:59 ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-13 14:27 ` Leo Butler
2022-10-13 15:18 ` [PATCH] ox-latex: Use \empty instead of \relax after \\ Max Nikulin
2022-10-14 2:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-12 9:17 ` Export of this table fails LuaLaTeX compilation gerard.vermeulen
2022-10-12 16:21 ` Max Nikulin
2022-10-13 5:03 ` gerard.vermeulen [this message]
2022-10-12 4:53 ` gerard.vermeulen
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