Re: Link descriptions

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

On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:34 AM, David Maus wrote:

> At Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:09:21 -1000,
> Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>
>> Aloha all,
>>
>> After reading through the documentation fairly carefully, link
>> descriptions are yielding unexpected results.  Perhaps I missed
>> something?
>>
>> I have a link defined for citep:
>>
>> #+source: define-citep-link
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (org-add-link-type
>>    "citep" 'ebib
>>    (lambda (path desc format)
>>      (cond
>>       ((eq format 'latex)
>>        (format "\\citep[%s]{%s}" desc path)))))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> With input like [[citep:jones][Jones]], it works fine, yielding
>> \citep[Jones]{jones}.
>>
>> My hope, however, is to pass page numbers in the description so with
>> [[citep:jones][123]] I get \citep[123]{jones}.  When I have a
>> description like this, I get [[citep:jones]$^{123}$] instead.
>>
>> This looks like a bug to me (at least I wish it would work to pass
>> page numbers to the \citep command).  Have I overlooked a restriction
>> on link descriptions?
>
> This is a bug, but not related to links: The LaTeX exporter turns a
> sequence like:
>
> ][\d+]
>
> into
>
> ]$^{\d+}$
>
> Where \d+ is a placeholder for one or more numbers.
>
> The question I cannot answer (yet?) is: Why?
>
> Best,
>  -- David

Perhaps it has to do with footnotes?  That's an org-mode environment  
with square brackets and, in some instances, a superscript number.     
Whether or not to set the footnote number superscript or some other  
way would ideally be handled by the LaTeX class, so shouldn't be  
something the org-mode LaTeX exporter worries about.

In my LaTeX experience, directly set superscripts outside of math are  
found in area measurements, e.g. 10~m$^[2}$, but not much else.

These musings are my way of saying that I can't think of a reason ][\d 
+] should set a superscript in the LaTeX export.

All the best,
Tom
All the best,
Tom