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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:14:52 +0200
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Hello,

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> LaTeX recommends \_ as an "escaped" underscore. In other words,
> "really use the underscore, not a subscript." When I do this in
> Org-mode and export via =C-e l p=, I don't get that behavior.
>
> Here's my options header:
>
> #+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t
>
> a\_b  -> a$\backslash$$_{\text{b}}$
> a$\_$b  ->  a\$\_\$b
> a $\_$ b  ->  a $\_$ b
>
> What *does* work, is this:
>
> a\(\_\)b  ->  a\_b

You can use the entity : \under{}, e.g.

  a\under{}b

or limit subscript to _{...} constructs., e.g.,

  #+options: ^:{}
  a_b


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou