| Subject: | item with square brackets not handled right |
Pod-LaTeX-0.54 and later
This is perl, v5.8.1 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Linux hobbes.dutchspace.nl 2.4.20-18.timer #1 Fri Sep 12 12:44:08 CEST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
When you have an item with square brackets in the text, e.g.
=item Hi there this is a square bracket [ here ] and [ here ]
The latex code produced looks like this:
\item[Hi there this is a square bracket [ here ]] \textbf{and [ here ]}
This is somewhat processed by latex but not very well.
The correct code to produce should look like this.
\item[{Hi there this is a square bracket [ here ]}] \textbf{and [ here ]}
Notice the extra curly braces.
See also chapter C.1.1 of the LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual (2nd Edition) by Leslie Lamport on how to handle square brackets in this situation. This is where I got the solution from.
Attached is a tested patch.
Only in Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/: blib
diff -ru Pod-LaTeX-0.57/LaTeX.pm Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/LaTeX.pm
--- Pod-LaTeX-0.57/LaTeX.pm 2004-03-08 03:22:43.000000000 +0100
+++ Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/LaTeX.pm 2004-09-07 11:42:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@
my ($hunk1, $hunk2) = $self->_split_delimited( $paragraph, $maxlen );
# Print the first hunk
- $self->_output("\n\\item[$hunk1] ");
+ $self->_output("\n\\item[{$hunk1}] ");
# and the second hunk if it is defined
if ($hunk2) {
Only in Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/: Makefile
Only in Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/: pm_to_blib
Only in Pod-LaTeX-0.57.rhdv/: pod2latex