On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM William Denton <w...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm using macros to format names in a LaTeX export, like so:
>
> on export and LaTeX will format it. That works fine. But in an index of
> names,
> if I want
>
> {{{m(Denton, William)}}}
>
> then Org takes that as two arguments to the macro, and outputs
>
> \m{Denton}
>
> Is there a way to get around this?
>
The comma needs to be backslash escaped.
{{{m(Denton\, William)}}}
Ref: (org) Macro Replacement
> (1) Since commas separate the arguments, commas within arguments have
to be escaped with the backslash character. So only those backslash
characters before a comma need escaping with another backslash
character.
