Hi Please consider
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL test \[ \begin{pmatrix} s & a \\ 1 & 2 \\ \end{pmatrix} \] % END RECEIVE ORGTBL test \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND test orgtbl-to-latex-matrix :splice nil :skip 0 | s | a | | 1 | 2 | \end{comment} \end{document} Now I insert a subscript in the first column and I obtain \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND test orgtbl-to-latex-matrix :splice nil :skip 0 | s$_{}$ | a | | 1 | 2 | \end{comment} Which is bad. The point is that cdlatex is *too smart*. @Carsten, or whoever is maintaining cdlatex, any idea how to solve that? Thanks Uwe Brauer