Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export

[Sunny Srivastava <research.baba@gmail.com>]

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Thanks Richard,
I had the same issue! I can definitely use your solution!

S.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Richard Lawrence <
richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't think this is a bug so much as an unfortunate consequence of
> expected behavior, but I wanted to document it here for the sake of
> future mailing list searches, because I didn't find anything about it
> myself.  (If someone has a better solution than the one I propose,
> please clue me in!)
>
> To add an umlaut/trema/diaeresis to a letter in LaTeX, I use the \"
> command, as in:
>
> G\"{o}del
>
> Unfortunately, due to the fact that Org export treats both `{}' and `"'
> specially, this will be exported to LaTeX as:
>
> G\''\{o\}del
>
> It isn't sufficient to surround the \"{o} with math mode delimiters, e.g.,
>
> G\(\"{o}\)del
>
> even though this will prevent Org from escaping the brackets and
> converting the double-quote, because the command doesn't seem to produce
> output in math mode.  (The compiled file will read "Gdel".)
>
> So, the work-around I've come up with is to use an \mbox inside math
> mode, which prevents Org from doing the escapes/conversions:
>
> G\(\mbox{\"{o}}\)del
>
> A bit ugly, but it produces the correct output.
>
> Hope that helps someone!  And again, if there's a better way, please let
> me know!
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>
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