I had the same problem. As a workaround I used \begingroup and \endgroup to denote {}

Thanks for your reply.

I am afraid I know nothing about Tex, so I cannot comment on that. But
all my Latex references
e.g. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors

give that as the correct syntax for \color, as opposed to e.g. \textcolor
which has the syntax you report.

But more generally, given that 90% of latex braces are just part of
command syntax I have a feeling that it would be more economical to
require the user to escape those braces which are indeed to be escaped
in Latex. I think Carsten has been correcting quite a number of these
"escape braces" bugs and I am not sure that the feature is worth his
time.

giulio
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I think the correct would be using Latex syntax like \color{red}{whatever}.
>
> If you write using plain Tex syntax like {\color{red}whatever} org
> will not understand that the outer curly brackets are part of the
> command.
>
>
> -- Darlan
>
> 2010/4/16 Giulio Fella <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just upgraded from 6.33trans to 6.35g-55-g36d3e hoping to solve
>> a problem with escaping braces.
>>
>> With LaTex_CLASS: beamer
>>
>> Something like
>> {\color{red}whatever}
>>
>> exports to latex with escaped outer braces. Namely
>>
>> \{\color{red}whatever\}
>>
>> This is the same behaviour as in 6.33trans. I had read it was a bug
>> which had been corrected. Is this a reappearing bug  or is there a way
>> round it?
>>
>> Also in version 6.33 the relevant content of org-export-latex-classes
>> used to be exported before that of BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA. Now it is
>> parsed after it. Is there any variable I can set to reestablish the
>> old behaviour?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Giulio
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> address@hidden
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>>
>