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Re: Using \\ in a macro argument generates \ in html, but \\ in pdf


From: Reinhold Kainhofer
Subject: Re: Using \\ in a macro argument generates \ in html, but \\ in pdf
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:47:14 +0100
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Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieben Sie:
>     Section 19.2 of the manual says that backslashes in macro arguments
> need to be escaped as \\. This works fine for info and HTML generation, but
> when using texi2pdf, I get \\!
>
> I am not surprised.
>
> Can you use texi2pdf -E to do the expansion with makeinfo before TeX
> sees it?  (It could well cause other problems, but that's the easiest
> answer if it works.)

Nope, does not work. The backslashes are still doubled (i.e. not understood as 
one backslash).

Cheers,
Reinhold

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