[Rd] Rd.sty question: LaTeX expert needed

[Romain Francois]

Hi,

I would not claim I'm a latex expert ...

In the highlight package, I also use alltt environments the latex 
renderer of syntax highlighted code, and I ended up masquarading a set 
of character (#, \, ...) into latex boxes and then use \usebox for these 
characters.

In this file :
http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/pkg/highlight/R/renderer.R?rev=168&root=highlight&view=markup

The functions boxes_latex and translator_latex might interest you. The 
list of boxed characters might not be complete.

Hope this helps,

Romain

On 10/01/2009 06:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> The Rd.sty LaTeX package is used when building the R manuals, and by the
> LaTeX pages produced from the man pages.
>
> I have tracked down some problems Gábor Csárdi was having recently (see
> "Re: [R] preformatted and '#' in manual pages" in R-help) to a LaTeX
> problem, and am trying to work out how to fix it.
>
> Specifically, the .Rd file he was using had a structure like
>
> \dQuote{
> ...
> \preformatted{
> line 1
> line 2
> }
> }
>
> which tools::Rd2latex in R translates to the similar LaTeX code
>
> \dQuote{
> ...
> \begin{alltt}
> line 1
> line 2
> \end{alltt}
> }
>
> The problem is that the alltt environment (which is a sort of verbatim
> environment, except macros are allowed) doesn't work when embedded like
> this in the \dQuote{} macro. Gábor was getting errors when his line 1
> contained a # symbol, and when I dealt with that, I found the formatting
> was getting messed up, and the section ended up being rendered as
>
> line 1 line 2
>
> The \dQuote macro has a simple definition in Rd.sty as
>
> \newcommand{\dQuote}[1]{``#1''}
>
> so I expect the same error will happen with many other macros in Rd.sty.
>
> So, my questions: Is there a known workaround for this in alltt?
>
> If not, I could skip the macro expansion of \dQuote by generating the
> quotes directly in Rd2latex, and most other macros could be handled
> similarly. However, then nobody who uses Rd.sty would be able to
> redefine the look of those macros and have things display properly.
>
> A third possibility is that we could make it illegal to nest
> \preformatted within other macros, but that seems to be an unfortunate
> limitation.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Duncan Murdoch


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