Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[Parker, Matthew]

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Hi,

 

The export to HTML is really great.... 

 

One thing that I'm tripping up on is that I'm trying to list data base
names that have underscores, e.g. prc_tms. 

 

And the 'second word' is coming out subscript: 'prctms' field

 

I realize this may be a feature and not a bug... but how to turn it off?

 

 

Thanks!

Matt


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Re: Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[Nick Dokos]

Parker, Matthew <MParker@seic.com> wrote:

> 
> One thing that I’m tripping up on is that I’m trying to list data base names that have underscores, e.g. prc_tms.
> 
> And the ‘second word’ is coming out subscript: 'prc[tms'] field
> 
> I realize this may be a feature and not a bug… but how to turn it off?
> 

Escape the underscore with a backslash: prc\_tms. Similarly, ^ produces
a superscript whereas \^ produces a caret. And for something completely
different, \alpha produces &alpha; which is rendered as the first letter
of the Greek alphabet etc.

This notation is TeX-inspired: Carsten is a scientist, he uses TeX/LaTeX
for papers and he uses org-mode for notes, so it was natural for him to
adopt the notation.

Nick

RE: Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[Parker, Matthew]

Perfect. Thanks!

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sub-script 

Parker, Matthew <MParker@seic.com> wrote:

> 
> One thing that I'm tripping up on is that I'm trying to list data base
names that have underscores, e.g. prc_tms.
> 
> And the 'second word' is coming out subscript: 'prc[tms'] field
> 
> I realize this may be a feature and not a bug... but how to turn it
off?
> 

Escape the underscore with a backslash: prc\_tms. Similarly, ^ produces
a superscript whereas \^ produces a caret. And for something completely
different, \alpha produces &alpha; which is rendered as the first letter
of the Greek alphabet etc.

This notation is TeX-inspired: Carsten is a scientist, he uses TeX/LaTeX
for papers and he uses org-mode for notes, so it was natural for him to
adopt the notation.

Nick

Re: Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[Daniel J. Sinder]

For the record, you can also "fix" this problem using the following 
file-local customization:

#+OPTIONS:   ^:{}

I'm a regular LaTeX user, but find that escaping underscores (with 
'\') gets tedious when cutting and pasting multiple file names 
and/or variable names that include them.

With the above option, "before_after" is left as is, while 
"before_{after}" has "after" set as a subscript.  See section 12.2 
of the documentation.

Dan



Parker, Matthew wrote:
> Perfect. Thanks!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nick@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org
> [mailto:nick@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org] On Behalf Of Nick Dokos
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:52 PM
> To: Parker, Matthew
> Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted
> sub-script 
> 
> Parker, Matthew <MParker@seic.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>One thing that I'm tripping up on is that I'm trying to list data base
> 
> names that have underscores, e.g. prc_tms.
> 
>>And the 'second word' is coming out subscript: 'prc[tms'] field
>>
>>I realize this may be a feature and not a bug... but how to turn it
> 
> off?
> 
> 
> Escape the underscore with a backslash: prc\_tms. Similarly, ^ produces
> a superscript whereas \^ produces a caret. And for something completely
> different, \alpha produces &alpha; which is rendered as the first letter
> of the Greek alphabet etc.
> 
> This notation is TeX-inspired: Carsten is a scientist, he uses TeX/LaTeX
> for papers and he uses org-mode for notes, so it was natural for him to
> adopt the notation.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
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Re: Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[David House]

Daniel J. Sinder <daniel <at> sindercity.com> writes:

> 
> For the record, you can also "fix" this problem using the following 
> file-local customization:
> 
> #+OPTIONS:   ^:{}

You can also disable this globally with the following code in your .emacs:

;; Don't convert _ and ^ unless surrounded by braces
(setq org-export-with-sub-superscripts '{})

IMO this option isn't flexible enough, though. Typically when I write a^b I
nearly always mean b as a subscript. However when I write a_b, I rarely mean b
as a subscript. So I would like an option that forces me to use braces for
subscript, but accepts superscripts without braces.

If I have time tonight I'll try to throw a patch together to do this.

Re: Exporting to HTML - underscores cause unwanted sub-script

[Rick Moynihan]

Parker, Matthew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The export to HTML is really great.... 
> 
> One thing that I'm tripping up on is that I'm trying to list data base
> names that have underscores, e.g. prc_tms. 
> 
> And the 'second word' is coming out subscript: 'prctms' field

I had this same problem and tried to find a way to turn it off, but 
noticed that whenever I used underscores I was referring to elements of 
a program, e.g. method_name, variable_name, database_name, or /file/path 
etc...

So my solution was to use the following syntax:

=method_name=

=/file/path=

Surrounding the word in ='s like above causes the font to be exported 
inside an inline <code> tag, which renders as a fixed width font and 
ensures it's not confused as something else.  It also nicely disables 
the subscripting.

R.