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bug #35920: Ampersand and tilde in TeX string: MATLAB incompatibility

Submitted by:  Burkart Lingner <burkart>
Submitted on:  Tue 20 Mar 2012 08:35:31 PM UTC  
 
Category: Plotting with gnuplotSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 1 - LaterItem Group: Feature Request
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: 3.6.1Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 01:39:20 AM UTC, comment #1:

A TeX interpreter has been implemented for the FLTK toolkit and will be part of release 3.8.0. The behavior described in this bug report now works correctly. Closing report.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Tue 20 Mar 2012 08:35:31 PM UTC, original submission:

MATLAB interprets plain ampersands and tildes in TeX strings as printable characters whereas Octave expects them to be escaped as "\&" and "\~", respectively.

Using either of them un-escaped in Octave causes weird output.

Plain ampersands and the character following them are replaced with a space in Octave only. Example:

This yields "abc ef hi". Notice how the second ampersand doesn't mask the next byte (i.e. the backslash) but rather the next character sequence (i.e. "\gamma").

Plain tildes in Octave make the following three characters superimposed on each other. Example:

Burkart Lingner <burkart>

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Fri 22 Nov 2013 01:39:20 AM UTCmtmillerStatusDuplicate=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 21 Mar 2012 01:37:04 PM UTCjordighPriority5 - Normal=>1 - Later
      Item GroupMatlab Compatibility=>Feature Request
      StatusNone=>Duplicate
      Dependencies-=>Depends on bugs #35912

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