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Re: [O] LaTeX export: underscores and the syntax package
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Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] LaTeX export: underscores and the syntax package |
Date: |
Wed, 18 May 2011 12:44:25 -0400 |
Peter Frings <address@hidden> wrote:
> Your suggested change in org-exp.el did the trick, thanks! I have not
> observed any side-effects, but then again, my files aren’t that
> complicated either, only using rather simple markup and a few floating
> images, no complex math or so…
>
OK, I'll submit it as a patch and we'll see if there any objections.
Thanks for checking.
> Anyway, now I know where to look I can always change it after
> installing a new release of org :-)
>
If you use git to keep up with org, then there is a fairly painless way
to maintain local changes like this. See the Org FAQ:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#keeping-local-changes-current-with-Org-mode-development
Nick
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
>
> On 14 May 2011, at 05:50, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
> >> On May 12, 2011, at 9:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >>
> >>> Good afternoon all,
> >>>
> >>> I spent the best part of the afternoon trying to figure out why an
> >>> org-generated .tex file wouldn’t compile with my set-up. It turns out
> >>> that the `syntax’ package messes a bit with the definition of an
> >>> underscore, making it impossible to use the underscore in a \label.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, the LaTeX exporter uses underscores in its section labels.
> >>>
> >
> > I'm really replying to Peter here, not to Robert, but I cannot find
> > Peter's original mail.
> >
> > You can change the underscore to e.g. a hyphen and get
> >
> > ,----
> > | \subsubsection{Experiment 1}
> > | \label{sec-1-1-1}
> > `----
> >
> > in the LaTeX output, by changing it in org-exp.el around line 1300 (I
> > don't want this to end up on patchwork, so I am trying to camouflage it
> > by boxquoting it - I hope that works for hiding the patch from patchwork
> > and also gives you enough context to make the change if you so desire):
> >
> > ,----
> > | diff --git a/lisp/org-exp.el b/lisp/org-exp.el
> > | index cda1f98..ac07c68 100644
> > | --- a/lisp/org-exp.el
> > | +++ b/lisp/org-exp.el
> > | @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ Also find all ID and CUSTOM_ID properties and store
> > them."
> > | (org-outline-level))))
> > | (setq target (org-solidify-link-text
> > | (format "sec-%s" (replace-regexp-in-string
> > | - "\\." "_"
> > | + "\\." "-"
> > | (org-section-number level)))))
> > | (setq last-section-target target)
> > | (push (cons target target) target-alist)
> > `----
> >
> > What I don't know is if this change will break something, either in
> > the LaTeX exporter or in the other exporters. So you might test it
> > and report any problems and if there are no problems, maybe you can
> > suggest it as a permanent fix. In my limited experimentation, exporting
> > a simple org file to latex/pdf, text and html, I did not observe any
> > problems, but that does not mean that they don't exist.
> >
> > Nick
>