Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Problem with % in latex placeholders?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:45:43PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:45:43 -0700
> From: Jim Busser <address@hidden>
> To: Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Problem with % in latex placeholders?
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> On 2011-08-18, at 2:14 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:49:27AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> > 
> >> By escaping the % which was in the .tex template and so-converting this…
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> to this…
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> I was able to make latex happy,
> > 
> > This is all backwards. The real question is why GNUmed
> > apparently does not replace the placeholder as intended. If
> > that happened as intended LaTeX would never see the %.

Once I looked at the instance file I spotted the problem:

>>> $<current_meds::\%(brand)s \%(preparation)s & \%(strength)s & \%(schedule)s 
>>> & {\footnotesize \%(aim)s} \tabularnewline {\footnotesize (\%(substance)s)} 
>>> & \multicolumn{3}{l}{{\footnotesize \%(notes)s}} \vline \tabularnewline 
>>> \hline > $ 

There's a stray space between ">" and "$" hence the intended
placeholder does not conform to the required layout.

Karsten
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