[TxMt] pbs with LaTeX labels

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 30. Jun 2007, at 04:00, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
> Hey, welcome back Charilaos!

Thanks! Sorry for the lack of support this month, my absence from  
emails kind of happened along the way, I hadn't planned it at the  
beginning. I have to say though that it was the most relaxing thing  
I've done in a while ;).

>>> [...]
>> Looking at this again, the current commands in the bundle use this:
>>
>> ${1/\\\w+\{(.*?)\}|\\(.)|(\w+)|([^\w\\]+)/(?4:_:\L$1$2$3)/g}
>>
>> which differs from the above only in the (\W+) part. So I am  
>> confused: Which cases are not covered by the already existing  
>> commands? I.e. what is the label, and how is it transformed in the  
>> two cases?
>
> That’s because I did commit the new transformations, though had to  
> make a minor change compared to what was discussed here.
>
>> As for the non-ascii characters, we could probably create a  
>> command that would scan the entire document and try to fix all the  
>> sectioning commands, including adding labels if there are none,  
>> and changing the labels appropriately.
>
> If I understand correctly, they give a LaTeX compile error, if left  
> there? In that case I think we should transform them to some dummy  
> placeholder character (having to post-process the document sounds  
> tedious).

That sounds reasonable, and underscore would do in that case. The  
main point of the command I was talking about would be to  
automatically add labels to an old document that, for whatever  
reason, did not have any labels for its sectioning commands.
(I am currently working a lot with editing old/automatically created  
from word latex documents, and thinking of tools to make life easier  
with such files.). So the cleanup of existing labels would be just a  
side-effect.

> When we can do recursive replacements (in the format string) we can  
> add some humongous regexp to make it smarter with respect to the  
> accents (i.e. effectively strip them, but in practice just handle  
> all known accents).

That would indeed be nice!

Haris Skiadas