[Orgmode] Re: Bugs when converting to LaTeX

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here an ECM (Example Complete and Minimal) showing two bugs occurring when
>> converting to LaTeX.
>>
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> * Bugs
>>
>> ** Conversion to texttt
>>
>>   - Put the command =runit= "in hard"
>>
>>   Not done because of the following word being between quotes...
>>
>
> Fixed.

OK. Thanks.


>> ** Paragraph disappears...
>>
>>   - Add the code if
>>     + it is above 0
>>     + it is less than 10
>>
>>     For the other cases, do nothing.
>>
>>   The above paragraph is NOT converted to LaTeX!  You don't see it in the
>>   PDF...
>
> Unfortunately, this is a weakness of the list parser in the LaTeX exporter.
> It cannot handle this kind of post-subitem text in an item list. This really
> must be fixed, and it is on my list, but it is hard.

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon, because this is quite scary. Though, that
does not imply it is easy to do...

Here a couple of other conversion bugs that I found:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  - /S'il faut remodéliser ce qui est dans le code COBOL, comment faire ?
    Discussions avec le business, relire le COBOL ? Chez nous, la
    tarification n'est pas modélisée. Pourtant, c'est là qu'il faut aller
    vite vis-à-vis du marché./

    The above "question" (in a FAQ) should be in italics. But, to do so, we
    have to split it in multiple chunks in italics:

  - /S'il faut remodéliser ce qui est dans le code COBOL, comment faire ?/
    /Discussions avec le business, relire le COBOL ?/ /Chez nous, la
    tarification n'est pas modélisée./ /Pourtant, c'est là qu'il faut aller
    vite vis-à-vis du marché./

  - Le /challenge/ : efficacité et rapidité...

    Here, the word challenge is not in italics because the following character
    is an unbreakable space (*not* a normal space).

        Note -- I'm forced to use such characters in order to get my LaTeX PDF
        correctly outputted. Anyway, under Emacs, the normal space is
        converted to an unbreakable one, each time it is before a ":"
        character, so that's easy to do, but the output is not correctly
        converted.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban