When exporting to latex from within an org subtree with properties like
EXPORT_AUTHOR set in a way to extend latex title capabilities
(i.e. adding instructor and institutional affiliation, ref
[[
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation]]) the "\\" string
within the org property gets escaped to "$\backslash$\" during
export. Latex then doesn't treat this as a newline, deviating from
expected behaviour
This is the org property that is used during latex export
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
:EXPORT_AUTHOR: Gabriel S. X. Smith\\ CMST220\\ Professor Voso
#+END_EXAMPLE
This is the expected org to latex conversion
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
\author{Gabriel S. X. Smith\\ CMST220\\ Professor Voso}
#+END_EXAMPLE
This is the actual org to latex conversion
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
\author{Gabriel S. X. Smith$\backslash$\ CMST220$\backslash$\ Professor Voso}
#+END_EXAMPLE
If you are familiar with latex you can see that this breaks the newlines
that would be typeset in the author section of the title by the latex
compiler.
Emacs : GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
of 2020-05-02
Package: Org mode version 9.3.3 (release_9.3.3-405-g817c0c @ /home/flare/.emacs.d/lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
current state:
==============
(setq
org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
org-latex-listings 'minted
org-link-shell-confirm-function 'yes-or-no-p
org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer)
org-html-format-inlinetask-function 'org-html-format-inlinetask-default-function
org-edit-src-content-indentation 0
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org-latex-pdf-process '("%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'" "%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'" "biber %f" "%latex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o '%f'")
org-agenda-files '("~/Documents/school/High School/MaiaLearning/TODO.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/GEO105/Lecture Notes.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/SITREP.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/Expenses.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/JAPN121/Lecture Notes.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/JAPN121/TODO.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/CMST220/TODO.org"
"~/Documents/school/2018 to 2020 school year/GEO105/TODO.org"
"~/Documents/Personal Work/bin_hacking_local/TODO.org"
"~/Documents/TODO.org" "~/TODO.org")
org-ascii-format-inlinetask-function 'org-ascii-format-inlinetask-default
org-reveal-start-hook '(org-decrypt-entry)
org-mode-hook '(#[0 "\301\211\207" [imenu-create-index-function org-imenu-get-tree] 2]
#[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
[add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-all append local] 5]
#[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
[add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5]
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(lambda nil "Custom keybinds for org mode" (interactive)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l l")
(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+LATEX:"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l h")
(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+LATEX_HEADER:"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i l a")
(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+ATTR_LATEX:"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i o c")
(quote
(lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+BEGIN_COMMENT") (newline 2)
(insert "#+END_COMMENT") (previous-line 1))
)
)
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i o e")
(quote
(lambda nil "" (interactive) (insert "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE") (newline 2)
(insert "#+END_EXAMPLE") (previous-line 1))
)
)
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(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "C"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i c m")
(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "makefile"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c i c s")
(quote (lambda nil "" (interactive) (__org-insert-src-block "shell"))))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c l s") (quote org-store-link))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c l i") (quote org-insert-link))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c o t w") (quote org-table-wrap-region))
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c m g l") (quote make-geo-item-org-item))
(load-library "org-beautify-theme") (org-bullets-mode t))
)
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org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
org-bibtex-headline-format-function #[257 "\300\236A\207" [:title] 3 "\n\n(fn ENTRY)"]
org-latex-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn _ CONTENTS)"]
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org-latex-compiler "xelatex"
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org-babel-load-languages '((C . t) (ditaa . t) (shell . t) (python . t))
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org-agenda-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region nil
org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
org-log-into-drawer "LOGBOOK"
org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-show-empty-lines
org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-activate org-babel-speed-command-activate)
org-attach-id-dir "Attachments/"
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org-babel-tangle-lang-exts '(("python" . "py") ("D" . "d") ("C++" . "cpp")
("emacs-lisp" . "el") ("elisp" . "el"))
org-export-before-parsing-hook '(org-attach-expand-links)
org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
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("eww" :follow org-eww-open :store org-eww-store-link)
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org-irc-export)
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org-info-store-link)
("gnus" :follow org-gnus-open :store org-gnus-store-link)
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org-docview-store-link)
("bibtex" :follow org-bibtex-open :store org-bibtex-store-link)
("bbdb" :follow org-bbdb-open :export org-bbdb-export :complete
org-bbdb-complete-link :store org-bbdb-store-link)
("w3m" :store org-w3m-store-link)
("nov" :follow nov-org-link-follow :store nov-org-link-store)
("file+sys") ("file+emacs") ("shell" :follow org-link--open-shell)
("news" :follow
#[514 "\301\300\302Q\"\207" ["news" browse-url ":"] 6
"\n\n(fn URL ARG)"]
)
("mailto" :follow
#[514 "\301\300\302Q\"\207" ["mailto" browse-url ":"] 6
"\n\n(fn URL ARG)"]
)
("https" :follow
#[514 "\301\300\302Q\"\207" ["https" browse-url ":"] 6
"\n\n(fn URL ARG)"]
)
("http" :follow
#[514 "\301\300\302Q\"\207" ["http" browse-url ":"] 6
"\n\n(fn URL ARG)"]
)
("ftp" :follow
#[514 "\301\300\302Q\"\207" ["ftp" browse-url ":"] 6
"\n\n(fn URL ARG)"]
)
("help" :follow org-link--open-help)
("file" :complete org-link-complete-file)
("elisp" :follow org-link--open-elisp)
("doi" :follow org-link--open-doi))
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org-link-elisp-confirm-function 'yes-or-no-p
org-latex-format-inlinetask-function 'org-latex-format-inlinetask-default-function
org-html-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS)"]
org-latex-packages-alist '(("" "multicol") ("" "xcolor") ("" "fontspec" t ("xelatex"))
("" "ltablex") ("" "fancyhdr") ("margin=1in" "geometry")
("" "minted"))
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"\\documentclass{article} [PACKAGES] \\definecolor{codegray}{HTML}{ebebeb} \n[EXTRA]"
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("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}"))
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org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil
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)