From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to handle strings with commas in macros?
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:42:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY3QyHP57Ev0ij2d57sF9TykSihybBpa=3rZgGOD7S7FMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2204071222270.52468@shell3.miskatonic.org>
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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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-07 16:29 How to handle strings with commas in macros? William Denton
2022-04-07 16:42 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2022-04-07 19:46 ` William Denton
2022-04-07 16:55 ` Eric S Fraga
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