[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56338] [wish] Automatically escape Latex special character when using -pdflatex for printing

[Rik]

Update of bug #56338 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
              Item Group:                   Other => Feature Request        
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   5.1.0 => dev                    
                 Summary: printing  the pie chart with -pdflatex does not
escape the %-sign => [wish] Automatically escape Latex special character when
using -pdflatex for printing

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Follow-up Comment #1:

The responsibility for handling Latex special characters belongs to the
programmer, rather than Octave.  "help print" for -pdflatex says.


The text that is written to
the LaTeX file contains the strings *exactly* as they
were specified in the plot.  If any special characters of
the TeX mode interpreter were used, the file must be
edited before LaTeX processing.  Specifically, the
special characters must be enclosed with dollar signs
('$ ... $'), and other characters that are recognized by
LaTeX may also need editing (e.g., braces).


It might be possible to write some sort of script, in Octave or in a more
text-oriented language like Perl, that uses regular expressions to
automatically protect special characters.

This seems like a feature request.


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