Re: [Orgmode] [beamer &/or latex export] problem with old style footnotes

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Eric,

On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Carsten,
>
> In latex, I often use a simple \begin{itemize} with labelled items,  
> as in
>
> \begin{itemize}
> \item [3] This will be labelled with 3 instead of a bullet
> \item [$\checkmark$] This will have a checkmark in lieu of the bullet
> \end{itemize}
>
> In org-mode, with beamer mode, I can do this except for the cases
> where the replacement text is just a number as org-mode seems to treat
> this as a footnote.  I have fninline set in the startup as well as
> org-footnote-define-inline set to t globally but the export still
> treats these old style footnotes as footnotes.


Hmm, this is not an easy thing.  The syntax you are using is entirely
LaTeX specific, so it will fail in other export backends.
Therefore I am hesitating to put this in as a standard feature.

If you want to have this, you could do the following.  It installs
a function into the export process that will protect such item
bullets from further processing.  The regexp looks quite
complex - this is only because there are 5 different
types of bullets and we also must make sure that a level
1 headline will not be mistaken for a plain list item.
What this really does is finding square brackets at
the beginning of an item, and adding a text property to prevent
further processing.

Hope that does what you need.

- Carsten

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(defun protect-item-bullets ()
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward
	  "\\([ \t]*\\([-+]\\|\\([0-9]+[.)]\\)\\)\\|[ \t]+\\*\\) +\\(\\[[^] 
[\n]+\\] \\)" nil t)
    (put-text-property (match-beginning 4) (match-end 4) 'org- 
protected t)))

(add-hook 'org-export-preprocess-hook 'protect-item-bullets)