[darcs-users] darcs patch: escape latex special chars from command help text in manual (and some more...)

[Trent W. Buck]

Eric,

Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> writes:
> The problem is we try to put plain text from commands' help output in
> the LaTeX source for the manual. Instead of littering the help texts
> with LaTeX escapes, which is ugly because they turns up in the output
> from command --help, I've reverted all escapes from the help texts,
> and made preproc automatically insert them when needed.

I haven't attempted to apply this myself, but it looks good from visual
inspection and I approve of the approach (especially since I'm dragging
my heels with respect to the reST transition).