Re: Newbie: Custom link type formatting in LaTeX export?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 11, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Christian Moe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (I'm new to the list; have been an enthusiastic Org user for a year  
> and
> half; now using version 6.36; am an Elisp novice.)
>
> It looks like support for formatting custom link types in LaTeX export
> is broken?
>
> I was trying to implement a custom link type with its own formatting
> function for HTML and LaTeX export, following the steps in
> org-bbdb.el.
>
> I've found that org-bbdb-export does not italicize bbdb links in
> LaTeX, nor does my own org-cite-export turn my custom =cite:= links
> into LaTeX =\cite{}= citations. Everything works fine in HTML export,
> but in LaTeX all custom link types get formatted as =\texttt{descr}=.
>
> I see that org-export-as-html and org-export-as-docbook look up
> org-link-protocols to get the function for formatting the link, but it
> seems that org-export-as-latex doesn't.

Hi CHristian,

this is correct.  Since you already looked into the code, would you  
like to write a patch to this effect?

- Carsten