Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Dear Orgsters, > > I am seeing differing behavior for how special symbols that appear in a > headline are exported to LaTeX, depending on whether I export an entire > Org document or just the current subtree. > > I have, for example, a file that looks like this: > > * Headline 1 > ** Headline 2, concerning $\alpha$ and $\beta$ > > If I export the whole document, the $'s around \alpha and \beta are > properly interpreted as math-mode delimiters, and Headline 2 becomes a > section title that looks exactly as I would expect. > > If I export just Headline 2, however, the $'s are escaped, and show up > as literal '$' characters in the title of the exported document. > > (I can't remove the $'s, because I am actually using some custom LaTeX > commands, not special symbols like \alpha and \beta that Org would > recognize as needing to be put in math mode.) > > So, two questions: > > 1) Is this difference between whole-document vs. current-subtree export > the expected behavior? > Looks like a bug to me. I can reproduce it too.
> 2) If so, what's the right way to work around it? If not, where should > I look to try and fix it? > I tried using \( and \) as the inline math delimiters but that did not work either: I got $ signs *inserted* and then latex complains about that: foo.org: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * Headline 1 ** Headline 2, concerning \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- foo.tex (elided): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ... \title{Headline 2, concerning \($\alpha$\) and \($\beta$\)} ... --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode