Re: [PATCH] Distinguish = and ~ delimiters in LaTeX export

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Aloha Tom,
>
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> Aloha all,
>>
>> The default value of org-export-latex-emphasis-alist treats the =  
>> and ~ delimiters as \\verb.  Both settings are ignored because org- 
>> export-latex-use-verb is nil by default.  The = and ~ delimiters  
>> produce \texttt{} instead of \verb.  This patch distinguishes = and  
>> ~ by changing the default for = to \\texttt{%s}.
>>
>> The docstring has also been changed to refer to org-export-latex- 
>> use-verb.
>>
>> With this patch, users exporting to LaTeX will be able to use = for  
>> \texttt text in LaTeX moving environments and ~ for \verb text in  
>> places where it is safe to use this construct.
>
> This is a pretty good patch, but I think we should still modify it.
> Org users traditionally use =stuff= to mark code pieces, and I think
> it is still important to escape special characters like ^ and ~ and  
> others.
>
> The modified patch below does the following:
>
> - Like your patch, it makes Org use \\verb for the ~...~ emphasis.
> - For =...= emphasis, it uses a new keyword \\protectedtexttt.
>  This will protect special characters and then do texttt.  And I
>  have extended the protection to include multiple hyphens by  
> converting
>  "--" to "-{}-".
>
> Do you agree with this solution?
>
> - Carsten
>

Aloha Carsten,

Yes, I do.  Your patch works here for the use cases I had in mind.   
I'm pleased that you were able to make the patch work for other use  
cases as well.  Also, I like having org-export-latex-use-verb default  
to t instead of nil.  It is nice to have the \verb command immediately  
at hand.

Thanks for looking into this.

All the best,
Tom