Re: Defining new structural markup element

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered somew=
> here in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer.
> 
> I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and =
> specify its translation into latex.  e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my=
>  document
> 
> #+begin_foo
> bar
> #+end_foo
> 
> and have this translated into LaTeX as something like=20
> 
> \em
> bar
> \em
> 
> but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at =
> the beginning and end of the "foo" block.  Is there an easy way to do this?
> 

Not sure I understand completely what you are trying to do, but you can
do something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

* foo

#+LATEX: \begin{foo}
bar
#+LATEX: \end{foo}

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

to insert arbitrary LaTeX markup at the indicated places when exporting
to latex. Other exporters will just omit the markup.

Nick