Aloha Tom,
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Aloha all,
The default value of org-export-latex-emphasis-alist treats the =
and ~ delimiters as \\verb. Both settings are ignored because org-
export-latex-use-verb is nil by default. The = and ~ delimiters
produce \texttt{} instead of \verb. This patch distinguishes = and
~ by changing the default for = to \\texttt{%s}.
The docstring has also been changed to refer to org-export-latex-
use-verb.
With this patch, users exporting to LaTeX will be able to use = for
\texttt text in LaTeX moving environments and ~ for \verb text in
places where it is safe to use this construct.
This is a pretty good patch, but I think we should still modify it.
Org users traditionally use =stuff= to mark code pieces, and I think
it is still important to escape special characters like ^ and ~ and
others.
The modified patch below does the following:
- Like your patch, it makes Org use \\verb for the ~...~ emphasis.
- For =...= emphasis, it uses a new keyword \\protectedtexttt.
This will protect special characters and then do texttt. And I
have extended the protection to include multiple hyphens by
converting
"--" to "-{}-".
Do you agree with this solution?
- Carsten