Hi Suvayu,
Suvayu Ali <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 06:40:48AM -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>
>> I couldn't find any information on this in the manual or the mailing
>> list, though I vaguely recall some discussion on the list a while back.
>>
>> Is there a limit on the length of text that a macro like this will
>> process?
>>
>> #+MACRO: green \textcolor{PaleGreen4}{$1}
>>
>> I have 2 and 3 line sections of text passed to $1 that worked last
>> spring, but fail now.
>
> Are you sure? Here is a 3 line macro that seems to work fine for me:
>
> non-uniform acceptance ratio. {{{note(Add note on RICH detectors
> relying on exactly this feature to discriminate between particle
> species.,inline)}}}
>
> I have attached a screenshot of the relevant part of the output pdf to
> show it actually works. How does the failure happen, what do you see in
> the exported file?
\textcolor{PaleGreen4}\{the only weapons they had were a
few stones in some of the Canoes and these they threw overboard
when they found they were not wanted\}.
Note the curly brackets are escaped. Not sure why ...
Tom
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