[plt-scheme] String escape sequences hurt!

On 14/03/06, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:03:24 +0000, "Paulo J. Matos" wrote:
> > So I've
> > been typing something like:
> > (latex-formula "\\sum_{i = 1}^10 \\varphi i^\\theta")
> > all the time, which is error prone and very ugly...
>
> Here strings or a reader extension is probably the right approach. But
> also consider the simple hack of abusing symbols, just because
> backslash doesn't escape inside symbol-quoting vertical bars:
>
>   (latex-formula '|\sum_{i = 1}^10 \varphi i^\theta|)
>

Thanks a lot for all the solutions provided. The here strings seem a
nice approach. :)

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

> Of course, that doesn't help if you frequently typeset vertical bars.
>
> Matthew
>
>


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