[Orgmode] [Arik Mitschang] org-mode ASCII export of in-word LaTeX symbols support

[Noorul Islam K M]

I am not sure whether this is already forwarded. I am forwarding this
thread from emacs-devel mailing list. Hopefully patchworks picks up this
patch.


Thanks and Regards
Noorul


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> org-mode ASCII export of in-word LaTeX symbols support
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> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:59:40 -0400
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> Hi emacs-devel,
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> I would like to suggest the following small change to the org-mode
> ascii export feature in emacs 23.2. The reason for this is because
> org-mode export supports embedded LaTeX in a LaTeX sort of fashion
> where a symbol can be placed inside a word provided it is terminated
> with '{}'. However in an ascii export the '{}' remains trailing the
> converted symbol making it very difficult to seamlessly support these
> inlined symbols across multiple export formats.
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> The manual likewise states:
> "If you need such a symbol inside a word, terminate it like this: 
> ‘\Aacute{}stor’."
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> indicating that this form is (or should be) supported. The fix is
> quite simple, the regexp for matching LaTeX symbols to be exported
> needs to allow for the terminating '{}' if existing. I have included
> the necessary patch below.
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> Thanks alot,
> ~Arik
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> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2010-07-26 
> on lacuna
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> --- org-ascii.el
> +++ org-ascii.el
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@
>  (defun org-ascii-replace-entities ()
>    "Replace entities with the ASCII representation."
>    (let (e)
> -    (while (re-search-forward "\\\\\\([a-zA-Z]+[0-9]*\\)" nil t)
> +    (while (re-search-forward "\\\\\\([a-zA-Z]+[0-9]*\\)\\({}\\)?" nil t)
>        (org-if-unprotected-at (match-beginning 1)
>         (setq e (org-entity-get-representation (match-string 1)
>                                                org-export-ascii-entities))
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