Re: Re: Verbatim export

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr> writes:

> [...]
>
>>
>>
>> #+begin_example
>> - this -
>> #+end_example
>>
>> : - this one too
>> : - and that one -
>>
>>
>
> Thank you for your quick reply, this is not exactly what I was looking
> for. What you propose will encapsulate all the text into a
> <pre class="example" > </pre> block. This means that the font and
> background color are changed. I would not like this to happen, just the
> characters to lose their special meaning.
>
> Probably my initial email was confusing because I used the term
> "verbatim" which in LaTeX changes the font. What I am looking for is to
> make some text to be interpreted litterally, without having all the
> surrounding formatters to be overloaded.
>
> The dash is not a very good example because most of the time the
> solution is just not to place any dash at the beginning of a line.
> However I had the following issue: I wanted to quote some text (so using
> #+begin/end_quote), and this text was beginning with a dash, then I
> didn't know how to escape the dash.
>
> The issue which I meet more often is when there are some `[0]' which I
> don't want to be interpreted as footnotes, so I was proposing some
> general solution like
>
> \verbatim{EOF}In reference [0] EOF.
>
> Another solution would be to have a \relax{} macro, then the following
> would also work
>
> In reference [\relax{}0]
>
> \relax would also make it for like for dashes:
>
> #+begin_quote
> \relax{}- this dash is not a bullet mark
> #+end_quote
>
> Well, there are several ways to solve the issue. I am not sure which is
> better.

The only other thing that works today that I'm aware of is you surround
your text with equal signs as in =[0]= but this also probably doesn't do
exactly what you want for both LaTeX and HTML export.  This uses \texttt
in LaTeX and <code>...</code> in HTML.

In HTML you're free to defined CSS for the <code> block but you won't
end up with a verbatim block in LaTeX.  I proposed the two previous
examples because preceeding the text with ': ' creates
a \begin{verbatim} block in LaTeX.

If you document is targeted only for LaTeX export then you can use LaTeX
macros directly in the source.

Regards,
Bernt