Eric,

Others will know better, but I think it's right to say, that's just how
latex export (currently) works.  It needs to have your buffer saved (C-x
C-s), and not just written to a file somewhere (C-x C-w).  This seems true
even if all you want to do is get your latex in a temporary buffer.  It's
not ideal for rustling up a quick piece of throwaway LaTeX, but, as I
remember, it's always been that way.

Scot


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
> >
> > *Case 1:*
> >
> > it produces the following LaTeX:
> >
> > \textbf{Case 1:\}
> >
> > Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
> >
> > Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?
>
> It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
> even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)
>
> However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:
>
> 1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
>   exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
>   following error:
>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> |   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
> |   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
> |   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
> |   org-export(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
> `----
>
> 2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
>   some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.
>
> This is all with org-mode from git as of this morning.
>
> eric
>
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