<venom00 <at> arcadiaclub.com> writes: > > Hello, when I put LaTeX code in a listing it seems backslashes aren't escaped (at least in View -> Show > source) and so it's executed while generating the output, is this a sort of expected behaviour or should I > file a bug? Should be an easyfix. >
I would classify it as expected behavior. It is possible to insert either LaTeX macros (to be executed) in a listing, by setting the mathescape option true and/or specifying escapechar, escapeinside or escapebegin/escapeend. I've used this to insert math expressions, for instance (including Greek letters, arrows, relational symbols etc.). If LyX automatically escaped backslashes, that would be broken. On the other hand, when I enter something like '\thepage' in the body of a listing, even though View->Source shows what looks like a single backslash, the DVI output contains '\thepage' verbatim, not the page number that would be there if the macro were executed. So I'm not seeing the problem. Do you have an example where it is executed? This is on LyX 1.6.5. I haven't tested on 2.0. Paul
