Thanks, Nick. Yes, I understand what you're saying.

But what I was wondering is this: orgmode generally interprets *word* as bolding of "word" and /word/ as italicising of "word". So is there a way to make it export *word* as \textbf{word} and /word/ as \textit{word}, when using orgtbl.

cheers,
  --Ben

On 21 June 2011 10:28, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net> wrote:

> When I'm using orgtbl in the midst of a LaTeX document, is there a way to tell it to export *bold*
> as \textbf{bold}, /italics/ as \textit{italics} etc.?

Yes, just like that. For example, the following works fine for me:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

* foo

Here's a table:


|           foo |             bar |
|---------------+-----------------|
|             1 |               2 |
|             3 |               4 |
| \textbf{bold} | \textit{italic} |
|               |                 |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Not sure if you are talking about radio tables in a LaTeX file,
but that too seems to work fine (see appendix A.5.1 of the Org manual
for more details on this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Here's a table of stuff:

% BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL to-buy
\begin{tabular}{rr}
foo & bar \\
\hline
1 & 2 \\
3 & 4 \\
\textbf{bold} & \textit{italic} \\
 &  \\
\end{tabular}
% END RECEIVE ORGTBL to-buy


%The Org table is inside a LaTeX comment.

% #+ORGTBL: SEND to-buy orgtbl-to-latex
% |           foo |             bar |
% |---------------+-----------------|
% |             1 |               2 |
% |             3 |               4 |
% | \textbf{bold} | \textit{italic} |
% |               |                 |


\end{document}

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Nick



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