[PyX-user] minimal example

[Simson G. <si...@cs...>]

> From: Andre Wobst <wo...@us...>
> To: pyx...@li...
> Subject: Re: [PyX-user] percent sign
>
> Hi Simson,
>
> On 25.06.05, Simson Garfinkel wrote:
>
>> The percent sign is the LaTeX comment character, so you will need to
>> escape it, as "\%"
>> Of course, the "\" is an escape character for Python, so you will
>> probably have to use "\\%"
>> In some cases, you may find it necessary to use "\\\\%"
>>
>
> Interesting! What's the minimal example for that? ;-)


Whenever you need to take two trips through the pre-processor. I  
frequently write programs that output programs. So if you have a  
program that outputs a PyX program, you'll need four \'s.

It can also happen if you want to have a program that generates an  
HTML page that is then turned into another program (by scraping).