Re: (dsssl) character repertoire?

[Tim McDaniel <tmcd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Backslash is the escape character for DSSSL (as for many other
> programming languages).
>
> So a string "\\" represents a single literal backslash.

Thanks.  That indeed works.  I'm a bit surprised, because \ is a
little different in Jade/DSSSL compared to, say, C++: "\n" and "\
" and such don't work, for example.

    \reverse-solidus
also works to produce \ in a string.

    &#92;
does not; for example,
    (element loar (literal (debug "HERE IS &#92; ***")))
("loar" happens to be the top-level element in my structure) produces
    jade:./loar.dsl:1340:30:E: unknown character name " ***"
That's the exact same message you get from
    (element loar (literal (debug "HERE IS \ ***")))
Since a DSSSL program is SGML input, "&#92;" is getting translated to
"\" pretty early, before DSSSL sees it.

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