Re: Link descriptions

[Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:33:38 -1000
Thomas S.Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:34 AM, David Maus wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:09:21 -1000,
> > Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> >>
> >> Aloha all,
> >>
> >> After reading through the documentation fairly carefully, link
> >> descriptions are yielding unexpected results.  Perhaps I missed
> >> something?
> >>
> >> I have a link defined for citep:
> >>
> >> #+source: define-citep-link
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >>   (org-add-link-type
> >>    "citep" 'ebib
> >>    (lambda (path desc format)
> >>      (cond
> >>       ((eq format 'latex)
> >>        (format "\\citep[%s]{%s}" desc path)))))
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> With input like [[citep:jones][Jones]], it works fine, yielding
> >> \citep[Jones]{jones}.
> >>
> >> My hope, however, is to pass page numbers in the description so
> >> with [[citep:jones][123]] I get \citep[123]{jones}.  When I have a
> >> description like this, I get [[citep:jones]$^{123}$] instead.
> >>
> >> This looks like a bug to me (at least I wish it would work to pass
> >> page numbers to the \citep command).  Have I overlooked a
> >> restriction on link descriptions?
> >
> > This is a bug, but not related to links: The LaTeX exporter turns a
> > sequence like:
> >
> > ][\d+]
> >
> > into
> >
> > ]$^{\d+}$
> >
> > Where \d+ is a placeholder for one or more numbers.
> >
> > The question I cannot answer (yet?) is: Why?
> >
> > Best,
> >  -- David
> 
> Perhaps it has to do with footnotes?  That's an org-mode environment  
> with square brackets and, in some instances, a superscript
> number. Whether or not to set the footnote number superscript or some
> other way would ideally be handled by the LaTeX class, so shouldn't
> be something the org-mode LaTeX exporter worries about.
> 
> In my LaTeX experience, directly set superscripts outside of math
> are found in area measurements, e.g. 10~m$^[2}$, but not much else.
> 
> These musings are my way of saying that I can't think of a reason ]
> [\d +] should set a superscript in the LaTeX export.

Sometime back I had a problem with [2010] type references. Jan Bocker
made a disable-plain-footnotes-hack function that put a non-printing
space between the [ and the 2. Will the same trick work here?

Cheers,
Alan

> 
> All the best,
> Tom
> All the best,
> Tom 
> 
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