Re: [BUG] latex superscript and documentation bugs

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:57 AM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Org:
> x^{(0)}
>
> becomes [note missing parenthesis]
>
> LaTeX:
> x$^{\mathrm{(0}}$

This is now fixed.

>
> (Emacs 24 with Org 6.35i and also with current Org-mode HEAD)
>
> Also, two possible documentation bugs:
>
> 1
> =============================
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Images-and-tables.html#Images-and-tables
>
> says
>
>    You can use the following lines somewhere before the table to  
> assign
>    a caption and a label for cross references, and in the text you can
>    refer to the object with \ref{tab:basic-data}:
>
> I think that is a LaTeX-specific comment in a non-LaTeX specific  
> manual
> section? Should it say "and if exporting to LaTeX, in the text you can
> refer to the object..."?

No, this works also in HTML.  It should, anyway.

>
>
>
> 2
> ==============================
>
> In the docstring for org-export-latex-classes it says
>
>    So a header like
>
>      \documentclass{article}
>      [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
>      [EXTRA]
>      \providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
>      [PACKAGES]
>
>    will omit the default packages,
>
> I wonder whether it would be better to show the double backslashes (\ 
> \)
> explicitly, seeing as the user will need to escape them in this way,  
> or
> at least to warn the reader.

You can add a warning - but this depends on whether you use customize  
or not to edit the variable.

- Carsten