On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:09:13PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> > A textbox with "$\GlucoseUptakeFunction$"
> >
> > turns into
> >
> > \rput(9.100000,-5.560000){\scalebox{1
> > -1}{(\$\textbackslash{}GlucoseUptakeFunction\$)}}
> >
> > when exported to pstricks macros.
>
> Yes. "What you see is what you get" ;)
>
> What else did you expect?
I expect it to be copied exactly like I input it into the textbox (instead of
altering it by escaping it). How am I supposed to use any of the features of
TeX if all the metacharacters are escaped?
> Do you want to type latex code into dia and have it transported unchanged
> via pstricks to TeX for later interpretation? I guess this is not intended
> by upstream. But feel free to contact them for clarification.
Oh, ok. Why in the world would you *not* want to do that? Seems like a
fairly weak tool if you can't. If I want a literal '$', I'll escape it
myself, no need for the program to decide what I meant.
See xfig for an example of what you can do. Several figures in my
dissertation were done that way.
On second thought, several figures in my dissertation were done using Dia
where the LaTeX *was* interpreted later, so I guess the bug I'm reporting is
that the behavior is inconsistent. In xfig there is an option to make the
textbox "special", which tells it to pass the text unchanged to pstricks or
LaTeX.
> If I got the issue right, we can't do much about this in Debian (and I could
> just close this bug). Otherwise, please explain more thorougly.
Ok, can you forward this to upstream? I guess I can't fathom why what I'm
asking isn't obvious and the default way.
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