Re: [Orgmode] [patch] overprotective begin/end during latex export

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Nicolas,

Your patch has been applied, many thanks.

I looked at your previous email, and it's not immediately clear to me
where the problem is either.

Thanks for the quick solution on this issue however -- Eric

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Eric Schulte writes:
>
> Hello,
>
>> I've run across the following bug a couple of times before, but have
>> finally had a chance to really distill it.  When exporting the following
>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> #+TITLE: latex environments bug
>
>> there is markup /out here/
>
>> #+LaTeX: \begin{enumerate}
>
>> but *no markup* in here
>
>> #+LaTeX: \end{enumerate}
>
>> and markup _down here_ as well
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>> everything works as expected, except that the
>
>>   but *no markup* in here
>
>> line is *not* exported to LaTeX, but is rather copied verbatim into the
>> final LaTeX file.
>
> It is because org-latex.el doesn't check if \begin{enumerate} is
> already protected or not. Thus, it treats it as if it was some plain
> LaTeX code inside the file.
>
> In other words,
>
> #+LaTeX: \begin{enumerate}
> *bold*
> #+LaTeX: \end{enumerate}
>
> is the same as
>
> \begin{enumerate}
> *bold*
> \end{enumerate}
>
> In this case, org-latex protects everything between \begin and \end,
> making it impossible to apply modifications to the text in-between.
>
> With the following patch, org-latex will not protect an environment
> coming from a #+LaTeX: instruction.
>
> Btw, a bug I described some day ago (about org-latex badly exporting
> lists when an equation spans across two lines) is also about
> over protection. I have a workaround, but I still don't understand
> why protection is needed for lists.
>
> HTH,