This is probably documented somewhere but I was surprised that I needed to add some white space in order to get special blocks recognized as such. Here is a simple example:
#+Options: num:nil toc:nil #+TITLE: #+AUTHOR: #+BEGIN_CENTER this is not handled correctly #+END_CENTER #+BEGIN_CENTER but this is #+END_CENTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the generated LaTeX % Created 2016-04-13 Wed 22:25 % Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{grffile} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{wrapfig} \usepackage{rotating} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{capt-of} \usepackage{hyperref} \date{\today} \title{} \hypersetup{ pdfauthor={}, pdftitle={}, pdfkeywords={}, pdfsubject={}, pdfcreator={Emacs 24.5.1 (Org mode 8.3.3)}, pdflang={English}} \begin{document} \#+BEGIN\(_{\text{CENTER}}\) this is not handled correctly \#+END\(_{\text{CENTER}}\) \begin{center} but this is \end{center} \end{document} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It's hard to see but the difference between the two examples is that the 2nd has a single space after the #+BEGIN_CENTER The behaviour arises from ((looking-at "\\+BEGIN_\\(\\S-+\\)") This is with org version 8.3.3 Should this be considered a bug? Please respond directly as well as to the list since I'm way behind with this list regards Peter -- Peter Rayner Leader, Clean Air and Urban Landscapes NESP hub <http://www.nespurban.edu.au> room 343 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia tel: work: +61 (0)3 8344 9708; fax: +61 (0)3 8344 7761 mobile +61 402 752 379, skype: petermorag mail-to: pray...@unimelb.edu.au TWITTER: @raynerstrings google scholar profile <http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=H3up71wAAAAJ&hl=en>