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[O] Avoid escaping braces in LaTeX export?
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Richard Lawrence |
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[O] Avoid escaping braces in LaTeX export? |
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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:26:31 -0700 |
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Hi all,
I'm wondering if there is a way to prevent the LaTeX exporter from
escaping "{" and "}" characters. There are export options to control
the behavior of a number of other special characters, but I don't see
any way to control export of braces in the documentation. Am I just
missing it? If not, I'd like to request this as a feature.
Here's my use case. I often create new commands in LaTeX to abstract
over some common pattern so I can easily type it and change it later if
necessary. For example, when taking notes on readings, I have a command
that makes its argument into an `inline comment' (basically an aside to
myself) defined as follows:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \newcommand{\ic}[1]{{\footnotesize [~#1~]}}
Then in my notes I have things like:
Marcus' point is more subtle, though, than that the substitutional
reading validates these inferences or theorems while the objectual
reading does not. \ic{This would not persuade Quine, for example: the
failure of existential generalization in modal contexts is for Quine a
reason to reject quantified modal logic, rather than give the
existential quantifier a different reading.}
The new exporter exports this as:
Marcus' point is more subtle, though, than that the substitutional
reading validates these inferences or theorems while the objectual
reading does not. \ic\{This would not persuade Quine, for example: the
failure of existential generalization in modal contexts is for Quine a
reason to reject quantified modal logic, rather than give the
existential quantifier a different reading.\}
with the braces wrapping the argument for my custom command escaped.
This breaks the custom command in the export.
I can't test it at the moment, but I believe the old exporter did not
escape these braces, as I used this command regularly and it compiled
correctly.
I would like to be able to get the old behavior back. I don't mind
manually escaping braces when necessary, because I almost always do not
want them escaped. I understand if this is not a reasonable default,
but it would be nice for me if it were something I could set on an
#+OPTIONS line. If others are interested in this, I can look into
creating a patch.
(By the way, it looks like there was a patch for a similar issue in
commit c6fd49726f2eaf417361b190b37e2d8ffb5864fc, but that is from April
2009 and therefore would apply to the old exporter.)
Thanks for your insights!
--
Best,
Richard
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