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Subject: Re: Org is exporting to tex an asterisk between "section" and "{"
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:56:58 +0000
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On Tuesday,  8 Mar 2016 at 09:30, Eduardo Mercovich wrote:

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> Being a total newbie I can't say that the resulting syntax is incorrect
> (is it?), but at least in the case of latex, *not expressing this
> specific option creates a non-functional latex file*. 
>
> Shouldn't the exporter take care of this? Or at least, never export the
> asterisk between the "section" and the brace (just in case, "{" since
> I'm not an English native speaker).

The * between section and the brace indicates an unnumbered section
heading and is perfectly valid LaTeX syntax for the article class.  I am
not sure why you think the syntax is incorrect.

num:t tells org to export numbered headlines so the * won't be there in
that case.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.90.1, Org release_8.3.3-535-g7213aa