Re: [Orgmode] Re: How do you use org for other formats

[Bernt Hansen]

Brian van den Broek <address@hidden> writes:

> Bernt Hansen said unto the world at 30/07/09 01:13 PM:
>> zwz <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I recently found the problem when I want to export the org file to
>>> html and pdf. I guess there will be some people (who are also not so
>>> familiar with the powerful org-mode) bothered by the same issue, that
>>> is, html and pdf requires different org format sometimes.
>>>  - I use $ y = x_1^2 + x_2^2 $ in org, it works for pdf, but not for html
>>>  - "_" in text will introduce mess in pdf, not in html
>
> <snip>
>
>> The following test file works fine for me as far as I can tell
>>
>> ,----[ x.org ]
>> | #+TITLE:     x.org
>> | #+AUTHOR:    Bernt Hansen
>> | #+EMAIL:     address@hidden
>> | #+DATE:      2009-07-30 Thu
>> | #+DESCRIPTION: | #+KEYWORDS: | #+LANGUAGE:  en
>> | #+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
>> | #+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:nil skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
>> | #+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 
>> path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
>> | #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
>> | #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
>> | #+LINK_UP:   | #+LINK_HOME: | | * Test
>> | |   Some math formulae:
>> | |   y = x_1^2 + x_2^2
>> | |   y^2 = 2x^2 + 1
>> | |   z_2 = x_1 + x_2 + 2 (y_1 + y_2 + r)
>> `----
>>
>> This renders HTML (C-c C-e b) [*1*] and PDF (C-c C-e d) [*2*] that look
>> fine to me
>>
>> -Bernt
>>
>> [*1*]  http://www.norang.ca/tmp/x.html
>> [*2*]  http://www.norang.ca/tmp/x.pdf
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I don't export from org at all, but Bernt's pdf doesn't look right to
> me. Notice that in the first equation, the exponents appear as `^2'
> (i.e., with the `^' character). As a heavy LaTeX user, I would write
> it as `y = x_{1}^{2} + x_{2}^{2}', but trying Bernt's file with this
> modification, I still had the same result (`^2' in the output as
> opposed to a superscripted `2'). Org 6.28d and emacs 22.2.1 on ubuntu
> 8.10.

Actually you're right - I didn't notice that.  If I export via docbook
(C-c C-e V) it looks better:  http://www.norang.ca/tmp/x-3.pdf

-Bernt