* Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export
@ 2013-08-27 22:48 John Hendy
2013-08-27 23:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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From: John Hendy @ 2013-08-27 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
LaTeX recommends \_ as an "escaped" underscore. In other words,
"really use the underscore, not a subscript." When I do this in
Org-mode and export via =C-e l p=, I don't get that behavior.
Here's my options header:
#+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t
a\_b -> a$\backslash$$_{\text{b}}$
a$\_$b -> a\$\_\$b
a $\_$ b -> a $\_$ b
What *does* work, is this:
a\(\_\)b -> a\_b
If this is the best/only way, that's okay. However, if others believe
that it should be passed through as \_ to LaTeX, perhaps that's the
best way? After all, just passing along _ works to subscript whenever
and wherever with my tex:t and latex:t options... perhaps escaping it
should also work?
An analog might be the use of \$, which escapes the dollar sign and
passes it through to appear as a dollar sign in the final document. I
suppose I'd make the case that if that's interpreted to be escaping
(vs. converting it to $\backslash$$), then perhaps escaping an
underscore should be treated the same.
Fringe use that I just stumbled on and isn't a critical issue, but I
thought I'd mention it.
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* Re: Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export
2013-08-27 22:48 Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export John Hendy
@ 2013-08-27 23:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-08-31 2:49 ` John Hendy
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From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2013-08-27 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Hendy; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> LaTeX recommends \_ as an "escaped" underscore. In other words,
> "really use the underscore, not a subscript." When I do this in
> Org-mode and export via =C-e l p=, I don't get that behavior.
>
> Here's my options header:
>
> #+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t
>
> a\_b -> a$\backslash$$_{\text{b}}$
> a$\_$b -> a\$\_\$b
> a $\_$ b -> a $\_$ b
>
> What *does* work, is this:
>
> a\(\_\)b -> a\_b
You can use the entity : \under{}, e.g.
a\under{}b
or limit subscript to _{...} constructs., e.g.,
#+options: ^:{}
a_b
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: Escaping an underscore in LaTeX export
2013-08-27 23:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2013-08-31 2:49 ` John Hendy
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: John Hendy @ 2013-08-31 2:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Goaziou; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> LaTeX recommends \_ as an "escaped" underscore. In other words,
>> "really use the underscore, not a subscript." When I do this in
>> Org-mode and export via =C-e l p=, I don't get that behavior.
>>
>> Here's my options header:
>>
>> #+OPTIONS: *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t
>>
>> a\_b -> a$\backslash$$_{\text{b}}$
>> a$\_$b -> a\$\_\$b
>> a $\_$ b -> a $\_$ b
>>
>> What *does* work, is this:
>>
>> a\(\_\)b -> a\_b
>
> You can use the entity : \under{}, e.g.
>
> a\under{}b
>
> or limit subscript to _{...} constructs., e.g.,
>
> #+options: ^:{}
> a_b
I'll look into this. I probably should have sooner, and it wouldn't
bother me *that* much to have to specify underscore and superscript
LaTeX entities with {} vs. having them picked up automatically.
Thanks for the tip!
John
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
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