On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:27 +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Kurt Hornik wrote: > <snipped> > > Definitely a problem in Rdconv. > > > > E.g., > > > > $ cat foo.Rd > > \description{ > > \eqn{{A}}{B} > > } > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ R-d CMD Rdconv -t latex foo.Rd | grep eqn > > \eqn{{A}}{A}{{B} > > > > shows what is going on. > > There is a "work-around" - putting extra spaces between the two braces: > > $ cat foo.Rd > \description{ > \eqn{ {A} }{B} > } > > $R CMD Rdconv -t latex foo.Rd > \HeaderA{}{}{} > \begin{Description}\relax > \eqn{ {A} }{B} > \end{Description} > > > HT Terrific! I can confirm that works for me and, in a way, a work-around is better than a fix. With the work-around, I can distribute the package without needing to require that people get some not-yet-release version of R that fixes the problem. I do hope the problem gets fixed though :)
By the way, I couldn't see how the perl code excerpted earlier paid any attention to {}. But perl is not my native tongue. Ross ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel