On 12/29/14 5:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
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".
Oh yah! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/271
(which I'm breaking into bite-sized pieces) uses it! -- Andrei
