Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bugs when converting to LaTeX

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Sebastien,


On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> > 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...


Be my guest to give it a try.

> 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./

You need to configure `org-emphasis-regexp-components' and increase  
the number of newlines allowed in these expressions.

>    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.

I don't understand that.  Could you please elaborate?

Maybe you can fix this by adding your unbreakable space in org- 
emphasis-regexp-components to the end of the second string of  
characters, these are the characters allowed after an emphasis string.

HTH

- Carsten