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You can use formatting in headlines in org-mode. For example:

* Behavior of the _insert_ operation

This exports to PDF just fine.

If, however, your formatting is code formatting

* Behavior of the ~insert~ operation

, exporting it PDF results in an error message instead of a PDF:

org-latex-compile: PDF file built_files_ignored_by_git_tex/a.pdf wasn't produced: [undefined control sequence] Runaway argument

Within Emacs, the formatting is displayed correctly.

Is this a bug? Is there something a user can do to make the PDF build correctly?

I use GNU Emacs 24.5.1 and (according to what's written to the pdfcreator tag in the exported LaTeX document) org-mode 8.2.10.

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  • Your example exports to LaTeX as \section{Behavior of the \texttt{insert} operation}, and export to PDF works fine here. How does your export to LaTeX look like? EDIT: This should include any header arguments or other LaTeX code as Runaway argument usually indicates a missing closed bracket.
    – Singulaere Entitaet
    Aug 27, 2017 at 20:34
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    For me, it exports to \section{Behavior of the \verb~insert~ operation}. I added the version of Emacs I use to the question. Here is the entire LaTeX file created on export: pastebin.com/9rreiGNz I substituted my name by <my name>. Everything else is unchanged.
    – UTF-8
    Aug 27, 2017 at 21:39
  • Your example doesn't compile for me, the culprit being \verb. Somehow pdflatex doesn't recognize the ~ as the separators and interprets them as a command. Can you upgrade your version of org to a more recent one? The exporter now seems to favour \texttt now.
    – Singulaere Entitaet
    Aug 28, 2017 at 6:28
  • It worked! Thank you! Want to post this as an answer?
    – UTF-8
    Aug 28, 2017 at 11:15

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Upgrade your version of org-mode. Recent versions use \texttt instead of \verb. \verb allows you to choose a separator such as + or | to denote the text part. While ~ should also work, here it does not.

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