On Tuesday, 8 Mar 2016 at 09:30, Eduardo Mercovich wrote:
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> Being a total newbie I can't say that the resulting syntax is incorrect
> (is it?), but at least in the case of latex, *not expressing this
> specific option creates a non-functional latex file*.
>
> Shouldn't the exporter take care of this? Or at least, never export the
> asterisk between the "section" and the brace (just in case, "{" since
> I'm not an English native speaker).
The * between section and the brace indicates an unnumbered section
heading and is perfectly valid LaTeX syntax for the article class. I am
not sure why you think the syntax is incorrect.
num:t tells org to export numbered headlines so the * won't be there in
that case.
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