I can confirm this.

Another related issue is that italics and bold do not mix in latex export.
You can't do something like this:

/An italicized sentence with a *bold* bit./  or *vice /versa/*.

Also, and this may be unavoidable without adding significant complexity to
the export engine.  But you can't, e.g.
/carry your emphasis on until after the punctuation is over./   (It's been a
while since I tested this.  I'll check it out again today).
For LaTeX export in particular, it would be nice to have finer control over
just where the emphasis goes.  For periods it's not generally an issue :-),
but some of the taller punctuation get into fistfights with their text if
they aren't allowed to be italicized too.

Scot

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> When I export a footnote that begins with emphasis/italics markup, the
> markup is not converted to \emph in the LaTeX output.
>
> E.g., the following source...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+title: Test
>
> This is a footnote.[fn:footnote]
>
> [fn:footnote] /Test./
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is exported as (some of preamble omitted):
>
> ,----
> | \title{Test}
> | \author{Matthew Lundin}
> | \date{March 28, 2009}
> |
> | \begin{document}
> |
> | \maketitle
> |
> | \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
> | \tableofcontents
> | \vspace*{1cm}
> |
> |
> | This is a footnote.\footnote{/Test./ }
> |
> |
> |
> | \end{document}
> `----
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
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