Disabling underscore-to-subscript in Emacs Org-Mode export

Question

When I export to PDF via org-mode (C-c C-e d), any words with underscores end up being partially converted to subscript. How can I prevent this from happening?

I found this article on the subject:

Disabling Underscore subscript in Emacs Tex Mode

However, I either wasn't able to figure out the correct elisp or it simply didn't work. Note, I don't want to change any global font options. I only want this fix to apply to tex/latex/org-mode.

I also found this post, though it didn't work either:

disable subscript superscript raise/lower?

Elanorelapid

org-toggle-pretty-entities for ppl where subscripts are annoying (or desired) directly inside an org doc (not related to OPs question about exporting though, just, this was a top google hit and figured I'd contribute). – Sharolynsharon

Answer 1

I was able to solve the issue by setting the following variable:

(setq org-export-with-sub-superscripts nil)

Elanorelapid

Answer 2

You can disable super/subscripting within an org file by adding the following line:

#+OPTIONS: ^:nil

Check the org manual for more options.
The following command inserts a template containing all the options: C-c C-e #

Teide

you can also have '^:{}' this will still allow you to have subscript if you use curly braces, i.e. my_var won't give you subscript but F_{t} will. See also the org-mode manual: orgmode.org/manual/Export-options.html#Export-options – Brow

There are some other options not on the C-c C-e t template: #+OPTIONS: author:nil email:nil creator:nil timestamp:nil – Exsert

Is this supposed to work in Org v.8+? It seems to have stopped working after I upgraded. – Shagreen

Corrected link from @danielpoe: orgmode.org/manual/Export-settings.html#Export-settings – Fricassee

@Brow Your link is broken. – Predestinate

Answer 3

I think this would be easier: http://orgmode.org/manual/Subscripts-and-superscripts.html Escape the underscore with a backslash:

Now, escape the _:

You can see this in action here: http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2013/04/27/octopress-setup-with-github-and-org-mode/

Greatgranduncle

Sorry for offtopic, but what color scheme do you use? I quite like it. – Smectic

zenburn -- awesome. Use package-list-packages. It's a bit like railscasts. – Greatgranduncle

thanks! And comments must be at least 15 characters in length. – Smectic

This doesn't seem to work for me in org 8.2.10, whether I'm publishing to HTML or to LaTeX/PDF. I get a backslash in the output, plus subscript text. – Leonoreleonsis

this doesn't seem to work when publishing to html. using org 8.2.10m same behavior as @KenWilliams noted – Malar

For submitting org bug reports follow instructions at orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html. – Bibliomania

@KenWilliams did you ever find a solution for publishing underscores to HTML? – Fur

Answer 4

Use \under (Documentation on The Org Manual: Special symbols)

For example:

text\under{}text

Exserviceman

Answer 5

Do you want to prevent subscripts in the onscreen display of the source file or in the text of the output PDF? If the latter, then you want

\usepackage{underscore}

It won't break the use of underscores in maths mode, either.

Misadvise

Answer 6

For individual cases, insert a literal underscore this way:

text text one\textunderscore{}two text

Highminded

Answer 7

In my case any word that contains an underscore is likely to be a variable name or something similar. I just surround it with = or ~ so that it's treated as such. Then it will be exported accordingly.

Fussbudget