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Subject: Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:39:13 +0000
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:19:31 +0100, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
> >>
> >> *Case 1:*
> >>
> >> it produces the following LaTeX:
> >>
> >> \textbf{Case 1:\}
> >>
> >> Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
> >>
> >> Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?
> >
> > It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
> > even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)
> >
> > However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:
> >
> > 1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
> >  exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
> >  following error:
> 
> I believe I have successfully lifted this restriction now.
> 
> >
> > ,----
> > | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> > |   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
> > |   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
> > |   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
> > |   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
> > |   org-export(nil)
> > |   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
> > `----
> >
> > 2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
> >  some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.
> 
> At lease with the latest version I cannot reproduce this.
> Can you please check again after pulling?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Carsten
> 

Carsten,

it all works very well indeed.  Exporting to a temporary latex buffer
works in both of these cases:

1. visiting a new buffer, no file attached;

2. after saving the buffer to a file (write-file).

Further, the OP's original problem is definitely not there.

Thanks,
eric