Re: [O] [Bug] ~Verbatim~ in headlines breaks LaTeX

[Nick Dokos]

Titus von der Malsburg <address@hidden> writes:

> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> * The variable ~JAVA_HOME~
> &
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Exporting this to LaTeX and then compiling to PDF, produces the
> following error:
>
>   ! Missing $ inserted.
>   <inserted text> 
>                   $
>   l.35 \section{The variable \verb~JAVA_HOME~}
>
> Apparently, \verb is not allow in command arguments:
>
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=verbwithin
>
> One solution is uses \cprotect:
>
>   \cprotect\section{The variable \verb~JAVA_HOME~}
>
> I don’t know how the exporter works but I wouldn’t be surprised if it
> wasn’t entirely trivial to implement this.
>
> The problem also exists in other situations where ~verbatim~ is used in
> embedded contexts, for example when used in link descriptions:
>
>   [[https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=JAVA_HOME][Google
>   ~JAVA_HOME~]]
>
> Is there anything that speaks against using \texttt for ~verbatim~?  The
> HTML exporter uses the code tag for ~verbatim~ and =code=.
>
>   Titus

I don't know what \cprotect does but there was a discussion of this a
long time ago:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14256/focus=14257

and back then, Carsten changed it so that verbatim in headlines used
\texttt - but that was the old latex exporter: I take it things are
different now?

Nick