Santy, Michael wrote: > Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to > externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing > images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or > flower{1}.jpg). If I pass filename containing these characters directly to > externalfigure, the closing bracket is mistaken for the end of the filename. > \externalfigure[flower{1}.jpg] % works > \externalfigure[flower[1].jpg] % doesn't work > > I then tried to define a variable that holds the filename and pass that > variable to externalfigure, but it ran into problems with curly braces. > > \def\myimagefilename{flower[1].jpg} > \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % works > > \def\myimagefilename{flower{1}.jpg} > \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % doesn't work > > Does anyone have any idea how I could handle arbitrary filename inputs that > contain brackets and curly braces?
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