[Orgmode] Re: How do you use org for other formats

[Bernt Hansen]

zwz <address@hidden> writes:

> I recently found the problem when I want to export the org file to
> html and pdf. I guess there will be some people (who are also not so
> familiar with the powerful org-mode) bothered by the same issue, that
> is, html and pdf requires different org format sometimes.
>  - I use $ y = x_1^2 + x_2^2 $ in org, it works for pdf, but not for html
>  - "_" in text will introduce mess in pdf, not in html
>
> I definitely want to keep only one org which I can export to other
> formats correctly. I do not know if it is already implemented in
> org-mode.
>
> I just wondered if it is possible to introduce a abstract level (or
> notations) so that org can translate it according to the target
> format, just like how org treat the headlines (*).

The following test file works fine for me as far as I can tell

,----[ x.org ]
| #+TITLE:     x.org
| #+AUTHOR:    Bernt Hansen
| #+EMAIL:     address@hidden
| #+DATE:      2009-07-30 Thu
| #+DESCRIPTION: 
| #+KEYWORDS: 
| #+LANGUAGE:  en
| #+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -: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
| #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
| #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
| #+LINK_UP:   
| #+LINK_HOME: 
| 
| * Test
| 
|   Some math formulae:
| 
|   y = x_1^2 + x_2^2
| 
|   y^2 = 2x^2 + 1
| 
|   z_2 = x_1 + x_2 + 2 (y_1 + y_2 + r)
`----

This renders HTML (C-c C-e b) [*1*] and PDF (C-c C-e d) [*2*] that look
fine to me

-Bernt

[*1*]  http://www.norang.ca/tmp/x.html
[*2*]  http://www.norang.ca/tmp/x.pdf