Re: [Orgmode] LaTeX export bugs?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hello,
>
> To make things clear, I love Org-mode (yes, I voted) and its LaTeX  
> export.
> More than you can imagine: I now look for avoiding writing any LaTeX  
> document,
> and have the export do all the work for me...
>
> BTW, any solution for exporting to a Beamer presentation?  I'd be  
> very very
> very interested by anything in that direction. That's the last piece  
> of the
> whole puzzle, IMHO.
>
> Though, working more and more in that direction (Org-mode -> LaTeX),  
> I've seen
> a couple of weird things that I've compiled into an ECM, for ease of  
> use:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * Org
>
>  - If you have a level 3 item under a level 1 item, the level 3  
> doesn't get
>    exported to LaTeX. I know this is not a normal situation, but it  
> happens
>    when restructuring some text, and you loose it in the exported  
> view...

Yes, the parser currently requires the structure to be consistent
and does not fail gracefully if not.....

> ***** THIS SECTION WILL DISAPPEAR!!
>
>      This text is not exported. Though, I'm not always aware of it,  
> when
>      sections are long (spreading over more than one screen page)...
>
> *** Level 2 -- is there a level 3 above?
>
>    - Table with formulas and environment /framed/ :
>
>      The following table will be framed, but TBL formulas do not work
>      anymore.
>
>        #+ATTR_LaTeX: align=lrrr
>        #+LaTeX: \begin{framed}
>        | Code      | \euro{} |  \% | \euro{} |
>        |-----------+---------+-----+---------|
>        | GSM       |         |     |    0.00 |
>        | Internet  |  168.45 | 100 |  168.45 |
>        | Matériel  |  295.99 | 100 |  295.99 |
>        | Publicité |  214.25 |  33 |   70.70 |
>        | Autres    |         |     |    0.00 |
>        |-----------+---------+-----+---------|
>        | Total     |         |     |  535.14 |
>        #+LaTeX: \end{framed}
>        #+TBLFM: $4=$2*$3/100;%.2f::@7$4=vsum(@address@hidden)
>
>      Swapping these two last lines gives LaTeX errors... What's the  
> solution
>      for having both: an environment around the table and formulas  
> that work?

This is a hard problem.  It is on my list, but will not be fixed soon.

>      Why do I have to escape the sign symbol as soon as I put LaTeX  
> commands
>      (and not BEGIN..END_LaTeX) near it?

I do not understand what you mean here.

>    - Hyperlink to other sections: see [[To be referenced]]. Looking  
> in the
>      produced LaTeX code, it always link to the current section  
> instead!

Have not yet looked into this.  Use IDs or custom IDs to links to
sections, that is much better.

>    - Quotes are sometimes exported in a weird /fashion/ : see  
> "Industriels,
>      et commerçants". And compare with the quotes in the next sample
>      ("Industriels et commerçants").

Fixed.

>      See as well that /fashion/ is not in italic above.

It is for me

> Apparently because of
>      the special non-breaking space following the second slash...

Looks like the non-breaking space did not make it through
the mailing process.  What exactly are you using?

> BTW, a
>      possibility would be to translate the "non-breaking space" to  
> its LaTeX
>      equivalent syntax (the "tilde" sign).
>
> * To be referenced
>
>  This should be the landing point for the hyperreference above.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Once again, thanks to all of you that provide us with those wonderful
> features...
>
> Best regards,
>  Seb
>
> --
> Sébastien Vauban
>
>
>
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