Delimiting TeX-fragments

Delimiting TeX-fragments

[Stefan Vollmar]

Hello,

in a software documentation we want to refer to menu entries like this:

[menu][arrow right][menu entry]

no spaces between the text and the arrow.

(usually, we would use a syntax like
"menu:menu entry"
but this is interpreted by org as an internal link?)

We find that:

(1) File\rarrOpen
does not work: \rarr is not recognized

(2) File\rarr Open
leaves a blank space before the "Open"

(3) Datei\rarrÖffnen
works as expected - but only if \rarr is followed by a special  
character like an Umlaut

This leads to the more general question on how to deliminate a Tex- 
like fragment without "side effects". It is also important for  
inserting non-breaking space as

(4) Do\nbsp Not\nbsp Break
will not work because of the additional spaces (is there a better way  
to insert "nbsp"?).

(5) \alpha\nbsp\beta
does work as expected

Many thanks in advance,
  Stefan
-- 
Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49-221-4726-213  FAX +49-221-4726-298
Tel.: +49-221-478-5713  Mobile: 0160-93874279
Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de   http://www.nf.mpg.de

Re: Delimiting TeX-fragments

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Stefan,

this is a difficult problem, I would use

File\mbox{$\rarr$}Open

or so.  Org-mode does protect macros with an argument entirely.
However, this will not work well for HTML export - but maybe you
only need LaTeX?????

- Carsten

On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in a software documentation we want to refer to menu entries like  
> this:
>
> [menu][arrow right][menu entry]
>
> no spaces between the text and the arrow.
>
> (usually, we would use a syntax like
> "menu:menu entry"
> but this is interpreted by org as an internal link?)
>
> We find that:
>
> (1) File\rarrOpen
> does not work: \rarr is not recognized
>
> (2) File\rarr Open
> leaves a blank space before the "Open"
>
> (3) Datei\rarrÖffnen
> works as expected - but only if \rarr is followed by a special  
> character like an Umlaut
>
> This leads to the more general question on how to deliminate a Tex- 
> like fragment without "side effects". It is also important for  
> inserting non-breaking space as
>
> (4) Do\nbsp Not\nbsp Break
> will not work because of the additional spaces (is there a better  
> way to insert "nbsp"?).
>
> (5) \alpha\nbsp\beta
> does work as expected
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Stefan
> -- 
> Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
> Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
> Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
> Tel.: +49-221-4726-213  FAX +49-221-4726-298
> Tel.: +49-221-478-5713  Mobile: 0160-93874279
> Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de   http://www.nf.mpg.de
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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