Re: [Orgmode] [BUG] Bad handling of "\" in link names

[Nick Dokos]

Nicolas Girard <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2009/12/3 Nick Dokos <address@hidden>:
> > Nicolas Girard <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> hi all,
> >> as title says, a link such as
> >>   [[http://www.somewhere.org][\maketitle]]
> >> is badly handled.
> >>
> > In what way?
> >
> 
> By the LaTeX exporter.
> It gets translated into
>   \href{http://www.somewhere.org}{\maketitle}
> whereas I'd have expected
>   \href{http://www.somewhere.org}{\\maketitle}
> 

AFAICT, it has nothing to do with links:

        \foo

in normal text, becomes \foo in the latex export.

Moreover, even if org did what you expected, I doubt that LaTeX would do
anything reasonable with the result (at least, a few tentative tests here
produce either LaTeX errors - e.g. if the link is in a headline - or
the \\ is interpreted as a newline - if the link is in the body of a paragraph.)

Nick