Re: [Orgmode] [Bug] Abstract block prematurely ended by asterisk

[Christian Moe]

On 1/9/11 12:08 PM, David Maus wrote:
> At Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:51:32 -0500,
> Jeff Horn wrote:
> > Title says it all. The following code does not export correctly.
> > (Reproduced from memory can anyone else confirm?)
> >
> > #+BEGIN_ABSTRACT
> > *Bold Text.* This is a sentence.
> > #+END_ABSTRACT
> >
> > The LaTeX code produced is (in full)
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC latex
> > \begin{ABSTRACT}
> > *Bold
> > #+END_SRC

I cannot confirm this. I get the expected output:

\begin{ABSTRACT}
\textbf{Bold Text.} This is a sentence.
\end{ABSTRACT}

> > Note the lack of a closing environment and the truncated content. I
> > remember pdflatex complaining that "ABSTRACT" is an invalid
> > environment, but don't recall whether that was related to the asterisk
> > issue.

Try it lower case:
#+begin_abstract

Org isn't sensitive about case in special block types, but LaTeX is.

> > Using org-mode 7.4 in emacs 23.2.
>
> Where is the ABSTRACT block defined?  No such block seems to be known
> by Org 7.4 running with emacs -Q.

Arbitrary block types are provided by org-special-blocks, a contrib 
(slated for inclusion into the next core Org, if I remember Bastien's 
announcement correctly).

HTH,
Christian