Ah. I always wondered about that since the change is reported for 9.0 but it's in effect for me on:
Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-753-gda4db33 @ ~/.elisp/org/lisp/) But I've obviously built from git. Simple case would be for Andrea to just try it and let us know :) Other than that, I'd defer to Nicholas to say whether or not this should be going on. Thanks for the clarification, John On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:53 PM John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I believe this is due to the new syntax change for export blocks >> announced a bit back. See: >> - http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/plain/etc/ORG-NEWS >> >> Try this instead: >> >> * Hello >> #+BEGIN_export latex >> hi I am latex >> #+END_export > > > I was going to say the same but then I saw that Andrea is using an > org-plus-contrib version. The new syntax would go in effect in org 9.0 or > for someone using org built from the master branch. > > It should not affect users using org from maint branch or > org/org-plus-contrib from Org Elpa. > -- > > -- > Kaushal Modi