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

[Jim Busser]

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 %.
> 
>>      $<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 > $ 
> 
> 
>> and the result in the pdf is a nice-looking but useless table -- see 
>> screenshot. 
> 
> Of course - you told GNUmed (or Python, rather) to not
> consider the % as a substitution prefix (by escaping) and
> LaTeX to properly understand the % as % (by escaping). Hence
> you end up with proper renderings of the placeholder format
> in the LaTeX source file and thus in the PDF: GNUmed does
> not touch what it sees as literal values and LaTeX
> understands "\%" to be processed as "%".
> 
> As I said. One would want template, instance, and log.
> 
> Karsten



-- Jim

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