Re: (dsssl) character repertoire?

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

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At 18:07 1/4/03, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>Ok, this answered my question, thanks!  Unfortunately, it wasn't the
>question I wanted to ask :)
>
>What I really want is to make the TeX backend output a macro call of
>my choosing.  When I do as above Jade escapes the backslash to a
>'\char92' instead.  How to prevent that?

Generally, the formatting-instruction extension flow object will put stuff 
directly into the output file, so try

(make formatting-instruction
   data: "\\char92")

And at 18:28 1/4/03, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>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.

The \ is an escape character, as in C++.  However, the escape *sequences* 
vary; in C++, "\n" is the escape sequence for a newline; that sequence, in 
DSSSL, is an 'n'.  The commonality is that if you want the escape character 
literally, you escape it - thus \\ in DSSSL and C++, {{ in XSLT, ... uh, 
well, really \ is the most common one, so I'm having trouble coming up with 
other examples.

>     \
>does not; for example,

>Since a DSSSL program is SGML input, "\" is getting translated to
>"\" pretty early, before DSSSL sees it.

Bingo.  The DSSSL stylesheet is an SGML document; the SGML parser parses 
\ and passes on only a single backslash.  I routinely enclose my entire 
stylesheet bodies in CDATA marked sections, unless for some reason I really 
*need* to use SGML general entities inside them.

~Chris
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