Re: Org-mode latex pdf export issue: Underlined lines not breaking properly

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Nathaniel Cunningham <nathaniel.cunningham@gmail.com> writes:

> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Org mode
>> translates _underlined text_ to \underline{underlined text}, however if
>> you read the TeX.sx question referenced below you will see that it
>> doesn't support line breaks and the TeX community recommends \uline{..}
>> from the ulem package.
>> 
>>   <http://TeX.stackexchange.com/a/13382/4416>
>
> The \ul{..} command from the soul package also supports underlining across
> line breaks.
> *And soul is included by default in org's list of loaded latex packages* -- see
> org-latex-default-packages-alist.
>
> Therefore it would be painless for org users if \underline in
> org-latex-text-markup-alist were replaced with \ul -- and it would provide
> more complete support of underlining!  

Indeed. According to

  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-dependencies.html

introducing "soul" package in default packages list was meant to provide
underline and strike-through features. I fixed it in maint.

Thanks for the heads up.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou