Re: Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> LaTeX recommends \_ as an "escaped" underscore. In other words,
>> "really use the underscore, not a subscript." When I do this in
>> Org-mode and export via =C-e l p=, I don't get that behavior.
>>
>> Here's my options header:
>>
>> #+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t
>>
>> a\_b  -> a$\backslash$$_{\text{b}}$
>> a$\_$b  ->  a\$\_\$b
>> a $\_$ b  ->  a $\_$ b
>>
>> What *does* work, is this:
>>
>> a\(\_\)b  ->  a\_b
>
> You can use the entity : \under{}, e.g.
>
>   a\under{}b
>
> or limit subscript to _{...} constructs., e.g.,
>
>   #+options: ^:{}
>   a_b

I'll look into this. I probably should have sooner, and it wouldn't
bother me *that* much to have to specify underscore and superscript
LaTeX entities with {} vs. having them picked up automatically.

Thanks for the tip!
John

>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou