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* [BUG] Export of sub- and superscripts to LaTeX inconsistent in tables?
@ 2012-06-21 13:24 Yu
  2012-06-21 14:13 ` Nick Dokos
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Yu @ 2012-06-21 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: org-mode mailing list

Hello!

When I use superscripts/subscripts in tables, they are incorrectly
exported to LaTeX -- the placement of math-mode marks ($), braces ({,
}) seems mixed up.

As an example an excerpt of my current laboratory book.

========================
| Calculation         | Zn layers | E_tot [eV/atom] (new) |
(interpolated) | \Delta{}E_tot  [meV/atom] |
|---------------------+-----------+----------------------+----------------+-------------------|
[...]
The energy difference \Delta{}E_tot seems [...]
========================

This gets exported as:
========================
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lllll}
 Calculation  &  Zn layers  &  E_tot [eV/atom] (new)  &  (interpolated)  &  \D\
elta\{}E_tot  [meV/atom]  \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}


The energy difference $\Delta${}E$_{\mathrm{tot}}$ seems [\ldots{}]
========================

Outside the table it works as expected.

You can see 3 errors in the export of "\Delta{}E_tot" to latex in the table:
    1. There are no $ marks. During PDF-Conversion this causes
        "! Extra }, or forgotten $" messages.
    2. The braces around the subscript are missing -- only the first
character thus is
        recognized as a subscript by (pdf)latex.
    3. For some reason, the opening brace after Delta is escaped.

The problem doesn't depend on the specific case of a LaTeX entity
before the subscript (i.e. \Delta{}). It occurs too throughout the
document for combinations like "E_gb", though of course the escaped
brace  ( \{} ) doesn't occur there.

When explicitly writing "E_{tot}" in the table, this was exported as
"E_\{tot\}", which is just as unexpected.

I tested this with a freshly pulled version from the git repository
and with the org-mode sample above as the contents of a minimal file
with the same result.

king regards, Yu

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* Re: [BUG] Export of sub- and superscripts to LaTeX inconsistent in tables?
  2012-06-21 13:24 [BUG] Export of sub- and superscripts to LaTeX inconsistent in tables? Yu
@ 2012-06-21 14:13 ` Nick Dokos
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-06-21 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yu; +Cc: org-mode mailing list

Yu <yu_icq@gmx.at> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> When I use superscripts/subscripts in tables, they are incorrectly
> exported to LaTeX -- the placement of math-mode marks ($), braces ({,
> }) seems mixed up.
> 
> As an example an excerpt of my current laboratory book.
> 
> ========================
> | Calculation         | Zn layers | E_tot [eV/atom] (new) |
> (interpolated) | \Delta{}E_tot  [meV/atom] |
> |---------------------+-----------+----------------------+----------------+-------------------|
> [...]
> The energy difference \Delta{}E_tot seems [...]
> ========================
> 
> This gets exported as:
> ========================
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{lllll}
>  Calculation  &  Zn layers  &  E_tot [eV/atom] (new)  &  (interpolated)  &  \D\
> elta\{}E_tot  [meV/atom]  \\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
> 
> 
> The energy difference $\Delta${}E$_{\mathrm{tot}}$ seems [\ldots{}]
> ========================
> 
> Outside the table it works as expected.
> 
> You can see 3 errors in the export of "\Delta{}E_tot" to latex in the table:
>     1. There are no $ marks. During PDF-Conversion this causes
>         "! Extra }, or forgotten $" messages.
>     2. The braces around the subscript are missing -- only the first
> character thus is
>         recognized as a subscript by (pdf)latex.
>     3. For some reason, the opening brace after Delta is escaped.
> 
> The problem doesn't depend on the specific case of a LaTeX entity
> before the subscript (i.e. \Delta{}). It occurs too throughout the
> document for combinations like "E_gb", though of course the escaped
> brace  ( \{} ) doesn't occur there.
> 
> When explicitly writing "E_{tot}" in the table, this was exported as
> "E_\{tot\}", which is just as unexpected.
> 
> I tested this with a freshly pulled version from the git repository
> and with the org-mode sample above as the contents of a minimal file
> with the same result.
> 

I think you'll be happier with the new exporter: it does this correctly
I think, and if you find other problems, I'm sure Nicolas will be happy
to fix them.

At the risk of putting words into Bastien's mouth, I would say that at
this point, the old latex exporter should probably be considered
unmaintained: nobody is putting much time into it.

To use the new exporter, see a post of mine from a couple of days ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/56993/focus=57007

HTH,
Nick

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