I see I made a mistake in the second example:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(let ((org-html-with-latex 'dvisvgm))
  (with-current-buffer (org-export-to-buffer 'html "*Formatted Copy*" nil
nil t t)
    (buffer-string)))
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: <p>
: <b>%appdata%</b>
: </p>

Is this just happening because % is a comment character in latex?

John

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Department of Chemical Engineering
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:54 PM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> If I have this  in an org-file, I was surprised to see different behavior
> of the export depending on the value of org-html-with-latex. Unless I set
> it to dvisgm, then the backslashed path seems to get removed. Is this as
> surprising as it seems to be?
>
>
> *%appdata%\Path\Path\Path*
>
> * Code
>  :noexport:
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (let ((org-html-with-latex 'dvipng))
>   (with-current-buffer (org-export-to-buffer 'html "*Formatted Copy*" nil
> nil t t)
>     (buffer-string)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : <p>
> : <b>%appdata%</b>
> : </p>
>
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (let ((org-html-with-latex 'dvisgm))
>   (with-current-buffer (org-export-to-buffer 'html "*Formatted Copy*" nil
> nil t t)
>     (buffer-string)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : <p>
> : <b>%appdata%\Path\Path\Path</b>
> : </p>
>
> John
>
> -----------------------------------
> Professor John Kitchin
> Doherty Hall A207F
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> 412-268-7803
> @johnkitchin
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
>
>