On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Schoepe <daniel.scho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > John Hendy, answered my question off-list, presumably unintentionally > (sorry about my forwarding parts of your mail, if that assumption is > wrong), so here's my answer to that which I also forgot to send to the > list. The solution / workaround was to use `\(n\)th' instead. >
Gmail habit. I must have pressed 'r' to respond instead of 'a'. Thanks for passing this along! John > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Schoepe <dan...@schoepe.org> > To: John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> > Cc: > Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: [O] LaTeX-export: letters after $..$ turn off math-mode > On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:37:33 -0600, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What are your settings for #+options: tex:t/nil latex:t/nil ? > > I tried all combinations of those two options, but it made no > difference. I also tried LaTeX:verbatim, but that didn't help either. > >> -- $nth$ >> -- $n^{th}$ >> -- $n$ th (note the space) >> >> How do those work? > > All of those work fine. It really seems to be the lack of a space > afterwards that triggers $ being escaped. > >> >> After some behavior with $ that I didn't like, it was pointed out that >> I could use \(math\) as well. Perhaps '\(n\)th' would work for you? > > That works, thank you! > > Nevertheless, I'd still be interested if anyone > has a way to disable this escaping behavior completely. > > Cheers, > Daniel >