Re: [O] Bug: parsing latex ``$\mathit{math}$'' in export [9.0.5 (release_9.0.5-474-g942b62 @ /home/joe/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

> With the test file as follows:
> ======================================================================
>
> #+TITLE:     example
> #+AUTHOR:    Joe Corneli
>
> #+DATE:      May 12, 2017
> #+DESCRIPTION: example
>
> #+LANGUAGE: en
> #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:nil -:t f:t *:t <:t
>
> #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:nil skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
> #+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 
> path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
>
> ``Every $P$ is a $P$'' 
> ======================================================================
>
> ... I see this behaviour:
>
> I run org-html-export-as-html, and the output file contains:
>
> ``Every P is a $P$''
>
> ... I would have expected:
>
> ``Every P is a P''

True. This is because in Org mode (and in Text mode), "'" is considered
as a word-constituent instead of being a punctuation element.

I'm not convinced it is worth changing the syntax class of "'" or even
making a special case for "'". You can get rid of this problem using
\(P\) instead.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou