Difference between LaTeX and HTML exported documents for bold verbatim text

Difference between LaTeX and HTML exported documents for bold verbatim text

[Mark Edgington]

Hello all,

I have noticed that it if you have text like the following in org-mode:

A *B* *=C=*

then exporting to HTML causes A to be normal, B to be bold, and C to
be bold and fixed-width font.

Exporting the same to LaTeX, however, causes A to be normal, B to be
bold, and C to be only fixed-width but not bold.

It would be nice if both exporters were consistent in how they export
the styles for these cases (it seems like the HTML exporter gets it
right, while the LaTeX exporter doesn't).

Regards,

Mark

Re: Difference between LaTeX and HTML exported documents for bold verbatim text

[Aaron Ecay]

Hi Mark,

2013ko azaroak 9an, Mark Edgington-ek idatzi zuen:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have noticed that it if you have text like the following in org-mode:
> 
> A *B* *=C=*
> 
> then exporting to HTML causes A to be normal, B to be bold, and C to
> be bold and fixed-width font.
> 
> Exporting the same to LaTeX, however, causes A to be normal, B to be
> bold, and C to be only fixed-width but not bold.
> 
> It would be nice if both exporters were consistent in how they export
> the styles for these cases (it seems like the HTML exporter gets it
> right, while the LaTeX exporter doesn't).

This is an issue of the default font in LaTeX not providing the right
glyphs.  See:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33039/using-ttfamily-with-bfseries-or-how-to-enable-bold-in-fixed-width-font

-- 
Aaron Ecay

Re: Difference between LaTeX and HTML exported documents for bold verbatim text

[Mark Edgington]

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > It would be nice if both exporters were consistent in how they export
> > the styles for these cases (it seems like the HTML exporter gets it
> > right, while the LaTeX exporter doesn't).
> 
> This is an issue of the default font in LaTeX not providing the right
> glyphs.  See:
>
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33039/using-ttfamily-with-bfseries-or-how-to-enable-bold-in-fixed-width-font
> 

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your message -- it is now clear why this happens, and that it
isn't an issue with org-mode.  I guess it's best to leave the org-mode
defaults as they are, but maybe this would be good information to add to the
documentation if it isn't already there -- that one can have something like

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{courier}

in their file (or the corresponding setting in their emacs config) in order
to ensure that bold fixed-width fonts work properly.

Regards,

Mark