Re: org-latex question

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> True.  This is because org-latex-headline is written this way:
>
> ,----
> | (if (and numberedp opt-title
> | ;;   ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ why this?  Maybe there's a good reason...
> | 		   (not (equal opt-title full-text))
> | 		   (string-match "\\`\\\\\\(.*?[^*]\\){" section-fmt))
> | 	      (...)
> | 	    ;; Impossible to add an alternative heading.  Fallback to
> | 	    ;; regular sectioning format string.
> | 	    (format section-fmt full-text
> | 		    (concat headline-label pre-blanks contents)))
> `----
>
> However, it need not be this way: LaTeX itself (or more precisely: the
> default classes) seem to support the alt-title even for starred
> sectioning commands.

I removed NUMBEREDP, since I cannot remember the reason for its
presence.

> Also, another way to circumvent this (/if/ there is some deep reason for
> the above code which I don't see, which is quite probable) is to hack
> into this part of the let form in org-latex-headline:
>
> ,----
> | (section-back-end
> | 	    (org-export-create-backend
> | 	     :parent 'latex
> | 	     :transcoders
> | 	     '((underline . (lambda (o c i) (format "\\underline{%s}" c))))))
> `----
>
> and apply a (smart enough) filter in the (auxiliary) section-back-end,
> something like removing a match for
>
> \\footnote{.*?}
>
> (this would be easy to break; in general, regexen are not a suitable
> tool for this, because they can't "count" and match braces; however,
> writing a suitable filter should not be extremely difficult).

Or ignore completely footnotes-references in the anonymous back-end.
However, is it needed since :ALT_TITLE: is now supported for all
headlines? I'm not sure.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou