Re: =<<<...>>>= invalid

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

	Jorge Timón <jtimonmv@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't care about the spaces and I would prefer not to use latex.
> The problem is that that produces:
> 
> \texttt{<<<} \ldots{} \texttt{>>>}
> 

Did you try it with the tildes instead of the equal signs?
Here, both old and new exporters produce

aaa \verb~<<<~ \ldots{} \verb~>>>~ aa a a

at least with the version I'm running (Org-mode version 7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-214-gf025d1))

Nick

> and then latex joins the first << and the first >> together, which is
> really ugly.
> 
> My document is already LaTeX specific, but if I'm able replace more
> latex with org mode, I should consider a later edition of the tex
> produced to keep it backend-independent. Not critical for this
> document, but it is always cool to be able to export to different
> formats.
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion, anyway.
> 
> On 9/17/12, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> > 	Jorge Timón <jtimonmv@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The only way I know to do what I want is \verb=<<<=...\verb=>>>=, in
> >> case someone has a similar problem.
> >>
> >
> > If you don't mind the extra space around the dots, you can say
> >
> >    aaa ~<<<~ ... ~>>>~ aa a a
> >
> > the advantage being that it is backend-independent, so it will export
> > correctly to HTML and presumably all the other backends --- at least
> > with the new exporter: I didn't try the old one.
> >
> > There are ways to deal with the spaces as well (the one before the dots
> > is no problem: it's the one after that causes a problem in this case),
> > but imo they are not worth the bother unless you really, really need that
> > exact behavior. I'd rather live with the spaces (or edit the resulting
> > latex
> > file, but that has disadvantages of its own).
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jorge Timón
>