Re: [Orgmode] Re: How to get \\ in title or author?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Bastien,
>
> Bastien wrote:
> > Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > For sure, it'd be better if `\\' wasn't converted at all when  
> > > exporting to
> > > LaTeX (for the ones in the TITLE and AUTHOR meta-tags, at least).
> >
> > But how do you insert a backlash in the resulting div/ps/pdf then? My
> > expectation was that converting \\ into \textbackslash was more  
> > common than
> > inserting linebreaks in title (of which I didn't think in fact...)
>
> As Tim told:
>
>   "So, from the perspective of standard LaTeX classes, any instance  
> of \\ in
>    the \author{} command should not be converted during export."
>
> I wanted to express that there are certainly more cases where you  
> want the
> backslashes in the AUTHOR and TITLE meta-tags to be passed as is, than
> converted to their LaTeX equivalent.
>
> But, your question makes sense: what if one really wants a backslash  
> in the
> author list or in the title...
>
> Problem stays for the authors as it seems that \newline is not good  
> for the
> standard article class...

Hi,

A workaround is this:

    #+LaTeX_HEADER: \def\dblbackslash{\\}

    \author{Einstein \dblbackslash{} Bose}





- Carsten