bug in Rdconvlib.pl converting to latex (PR#311)

[Saikat DebRoy]

>>>>> "maechler" == maechler  <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>>>>> "Ray" == Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> writes:
  Ray> If .../<pkg>/man/ contains a filename beginning with [, such as
  Ray> [.datetimes, Rdconvlib.pl cannot convert that help file into
  Ray> latex at INSTALL time.  [Using --no-latex is a workaround.]

  maechler> Well, the bug is more that of documentation of what is
  maechler> allowed for *.Rd file names.

I do not think that the problem is with the file names here. It occurs
in line 1335 of Rdconvlib.pl (0.90.0 development version). You can get
around it by escaping the spacial characters in $blocks{"name"}.

The following patch does just that.

============================================================
--- Rdconvlib.pl Thu Nov  4 07:45:11 1999
+++ Rdconvlib.pl Thu Nov  4 09:57:43 1999
@@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@
       print STDERR "rdoc2l: alias='$_', code2l(.)='$c', latex_c_a(.)='$a'\n"
        if $debug;
       printf latexout "\\alias\{%s\}\{%s\}\n", $a, $blocks{"name"}
-       unless /^$blocks{"name"}$/;
+       unless /^\Q$blocks{"name"}$/;
     }
     foreach (@keywords) {
       printf latexout "\\keyword\{%s\}\{%s\}\n", $_, $blocks{"name"}
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