> On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:15, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:21, Jan David Hauck <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm stuck with a problem, which might simply be one of running at the limits >> of wanting it both ways, using BibDesk for both, (La)TeX and non-TeX >> environments. In particular Publishers but also some Booktitles have >> ampersands, which for TeX have to be escaped with backslashes. However when >> using custom BibDesk Templates (nonTeX) for copying citations I was unable >> to find a way to remove them stringByRemovingTeX doesn't get rid of >> backslashes neither does the deTeXifying. >> >> Is there a way to either: >> get rid of the backslash in the template >> or >> a BibLaTeX command that would escape the ampersands before it tries to >> compile? >> >> Any ideas greatly appreciated! >> >> Jan >> >> >> PS: For the developers, what about a stringByRemovingBackslash function? > > Sorry, that’s not possible. And we cannot add yet another string method to > clean up the string, we could do that for just everything that may occur in > TeX, and that’s a lot, we could keep adding methods. > > Christiaan
I guess though it makes sense to remove the backslash in stringByRemovingTeX, so we’ll do that in the future. Christiaan
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