Re: [Orgmode] [Bug] Abstract block prematurely ended by asterisk

[Jeff Horn]

I can no longer reproduce this on my own system. Thanks for the follow
up, everyone. I don't know what change fixed the issue between then
and now, but I haven't worked on that project since I sent my original
post.

Thanks, again!

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Christian Moe <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/9/11 12:08 PM, David Maus wrote:
>>
>> At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:51:32 -0500,
>> Jeff Horn wrote:
>>>
>>> Title says it all. The following code does not export correctly.
>>> (Reproduced from memory can anyone else confirm?)
>>>
>>> #+BEGIN_ABSTRACT
>>> *Bold Text.* This is a sentence.
>>> #+END_ABSTRACT
>>>
>>> The LaTeX code produced is (in full)
>>>
>>> #+BEGIN_SRC latex
>>> \begin{ABSTRACT}
>>> *Bold
>>> #+END_SRC
>
> I cannot confirm this. I get the expected output:
>
> \begin{ABSTRACT}
> \textbf{Bold Text.} This is a sentence.
> \end{ABSTRACT}
>
>>>
>>> Note the lack of a closing environment and the truncated content. I
>>> remember pdflatex complaining that "ABSTRACT" is an invalid
>>> environment, but don't recall whether that was related to the asterisk
>>> issue.
>
> Try it lower case:
> #+begin_abstract
>
> Org isn't sensitive about case in special block types, but LaTeX is.
>
>>>
>>> Using org-mode 7.4 in emacs 23.2.
>>
>> Where is the ABSTRACT block defined?  No such block seems to be known
>> by Org 7.4 running with emacs -Q.
>
> Arbitrary block types are provided by org-special-blocks, a contrib (slated
> for inclusion into the next core Org, if I remember Bastien's announcement
> correctly).
>
> HTH,
> Christian
>



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