On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 15/04/2010 15:55, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : >> Then, there is another issue. Some applications require that the files are >> quoted. However, there is no way to embed a quote in a preference string. >> For example, SumatraPDF performs a forward search when it receives the >> DDE command [ForwardSearch("file.pdf","file.tex",142,0,0,1)], where the >> quotes are essential, but the following line is not correctly parsed: >> >> \forward_search "CMCDDE SUMATRA control >> [ForwardSearch(\"$$o\",\"$$t\",$$n,0,0,1)]" > > Does it work now?
Yes, thanks! Now escaping seems to work and forward search with SumatraPDF can be achieved by \forward_search "CMCDDE SUMATRA control [ForwardSearch(\\\"$$o\\\",\\\"$$t\\\",$$n,0,0,1)]" where CMCDDE is downloadable from http://www.istri.fr/zip/CMCDDE.zip -- Enrico