Hi, the Worg page on LaTeX publishing covers this under "Block-level Markup" and "Inline Markup":
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-2 http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-10-3 Haven't tried it myself so far (but planning to do so). Cheers, Viktor Levy, Roger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relative org newbie and I expect that this question is answered > somewhere in the manual, but I've searched and I can't find the answer. > > I would like to define a new structural markup element for an org file and > specify its translation into latex. e.g., I'd like to be able to put in my > document > > #+begin_foo > bar > #+end_foo > > and have this translated into LaTeX as something like > > \em > bar > \em > > but I'd like to be able to flexibly specify the LaTeX commands inserted at > the beginning and end of the "foo" block. Is there an easy way to do this? > > Best & many thanks in advance! > > Roger > >