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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-11-26 17:32:51 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-11-26 17:32:51 -0500
commitb352cf7a80e0841017ca198f27f9da49d7256739 (patch)
treea5ac966e91e90f29904f06ae93b0555820dcce7e
parent6a13deffd4983bcc0b21f4df0a5d86cd94b6e05a (diff)
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Fix translation of special characters in psql's LaTeX output modes.
latex_escaped_print() mistranslated \ and failed to provide any translation for # ^ and ~, all of which would typically lead to LaTeX document syntax errors. In addition it didn't translate < > and |, which would typically render as unexpected characters. To some extent this represents shortcomings in ancient versions of LaTeX, which if memory serves had no easy way to render these control characters as ASCII text. But that's been fixed for, um, decades. In any case there is no value in emitting guaranteed-to-fail output for these characters. Noted while fooling with test cases added by commit 9a98984f4. Back-patch the code change to all supported versions.
-rw-r--r--src/fe_utils/print.c36
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/fe_utils/print.c b/src/fe_utils/print.c
index cb9a9a06131..22f67710d2a 100644
--- a/src/fe_utils/print.c
+++ b/src/fe_utils/print.c
@@ -2187,14 +2187,34 @@ latex_escaped_print(const char *in, FILE *fout)
for (p = in; *p; p++)
switch (*p)
{
- case '&':
- fputs("\\&", fout);
+ /*
+ * We convert ASCII characters per the recommendations in
+ * Scott Pakin's "The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List",
+ * available from CTAN. For non-ASCII, you're on your own.
+ */
+ case '#':
+ fputs("\\#", fout);
+ break;
+ case '$':
+ fputs("\\$", fout);
break;
case '%':
fputs("\\%", fout);
break;
- case '$':
- fputs("\\$", fout);
+ case '&':
+ fputs("\\&", fout);
+ break;
+ case '<':
+ fputs("\\textless{}", fout);
+ break;
+ case '>':
+ fputs("\\textgreater{}", fout);
+ break;
+ case '\\':
+ fputs("\\textbackslash{}", fout);
+ break;
+ case '^':
+ fputs("\\^{}", fout);
break;
case '_':
fputs("\\_", fout);
@@ -2202,13 +2222,17 @@ latex_escaped_print(const char *in, FILE *fout)
case '{':
fputs("\\{", fout);
break;
+ case '|':
+ fputs("\\textbar{}", fout);
+ break;
case '}':
fputs("\\}", fout);
break;
- case '\\':
- fputs("\\backslash", fout);
+ case '~':
+ fputs("\\~{}", fout);
break;
case '\n':
+ /* This is not right, but doing it right seems too hard */
fputs("\\\\", fout);
break;
default: