On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 01:45:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Certain character sequences in LaTeX need to be escaped; for
example "$"
needs to be written as "\$", whereas it can appear literally
in HTML.
Again, the only solution is $(DOLLAR).
Yah, as I said that's pretty much it. You need to encapsulate
special stuff in macros, which is all uniform and simple.
You know what drives me nuts about this? Ddoc's design has an
elegant solution:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/doc.c#L230
The ESCAPES thing. It is right there... been there for years...
but not actually used. And now I think we're stuck with this
nonsense since there's real world code that uses the html
passthrough "feature".
