Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes: > Org is not latex, for better or for worse. However, it does allow you > to mix the two in various ways. The inline approach is limited to > {text} that is on the same line. You could try using visual-line-mode > and have all paragraphs be single lines. > > Alternative, you could try (untested): > > blah blah blah > #+LATEX: \ic{ > some text for the inline comment > #+LATEX: } > more blah
Thanks, Eric; that works, too. I think for now the best thing is for me to put longer comments in a custom environment. Then I can use Org's block syntax, and have other export backends do the right thing, if I ever use them instead of LaTeX. I did dig into the exporter code a bit, so in case anyone is bitten by a similar issue that doesn't have a ready workaround, the places to look seem to be: - org-element.el:org-element-latex-or-entity-successor. This is where LaTeX fragments are identified. (As Eric notes, multi-line commands will not have their arguments parsed as part of a latex-fragment; instead, the argument and surrounding braces are parsed as text in the surrounding paragraph.) - ox-latex.el:org-latex-plain-text. This is where special characters that don't get parsed as part of a LaTeX fragment are protected/escaped. I still think it might be nice if each of the protections in org-latex-plain-text could be toggled via an #+OPTIONS keyword, since more often than not, I find that characters are escaped in LaTeX export when I would prefer they weren't. But that might be a peculiar fact about how I use Org. Since for now I don't require this behavior, I'm not going to try to implement it myself, but if anyone else would also find it useful, let me know and I will take a stab at writing a patch. Thanks, all, for the help! -- Best, Richard