* How to handle strings with commas in macros?
@ 2022-04-07 16:29 William Denton
2022-04-07 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2022-04-07 16:55 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: William Denton @ 2022-04-07 16:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I'm using macros to format names in a LaTeX export, like so:
#+latex_header: \newcommand\m[1]{\textsc{#1}}
#+macro: m \m{$1}
Thus
{{{m(William Denton)}}}
becomes
\m{William Denton}
on export and LaTeX will format it. That works fine. But in an index of names,
if I want
{{{m(Denton, William)}}}
then Org takes that as two arguments to the macro, and outputs
\m{Denton}
Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks,
Bill
--
William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada
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* Re: How to handle strings with commas in macros?
2022-04-07 16:29 How to handle strings with commas in macros? William Denton
@ 2022-04-07 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2022-04-07 19:46 ` William Denton
2022-04-07 16:55 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Kaushal Modi @ 2022-04-07 16:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: William Denton; +Cc: emacs-org list
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm using macros to format names in a LaTeX export, like so:
>
> on export and LaTeX will format it. That works fine. But in an index of
> names,
> if I want
>
> {{{m(Denton, William)}}}
>
> then Org takes that as two arguments to the macro, and outputs
>
> \m{Denton}
>
> Is there a way to get around this?
>
The comma needs to be backslash escaped.
{{{m(Denton\, William)}}}
Ref: (org) Macro Replacement
> (1) Since commas separate the arguments, commas within arguments have
to be escaped with the backslash character. So only those backslash
characters before a comma need escaping with another backslash
character.
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* Re: How to handle strings with commas in macros?
2022-04-07 16:29 How to handle strings with commas in macros? William Denton
2022-04-07 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi
@ 2022-04-07 16:55 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2022-04-07 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: William Denton; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Thursday, 7 Apr 2022 at 12:29, William Denton wrote:
> on export and LaTeX will format it. That works fine. But in an index of names,
> if I want
>
> {{{m(Denton, William)}}}
You have to escape the , unfortunately:
{{{m(Denton\, William)}}}
--
: Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.2-427-g40a348 in Emacs 29.0.50
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* Re: How to handle strings with commas in macros?
2022-04-07 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi
@ 2022-04-07 19:46 ` William Denton
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From: William Denton @ 2022-04-07 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-org list
On 7 April 2022, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> The comma needs to be backslash escaped.
>
> {{{m(Denton\, William)}}}
>
> Ref: (org) Macro Replacement
Aha! Thanks to you and Eric for pointing this out. I missed that footnote (and
I should have tried escaping with a backslash anyway, since that's the solution
to so many things).
I'd been looking at the documentation on the web site, as I usually do, but the
pointer to the info page got me looking at that. I'm going to start referring
to it first and see how that goes.
Bill
--
William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada
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