Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > To fix 2/ properly, I see two radically different solutions:
> a) set POSIXLY_CORRECT before invoking awk, so that gawk is in POSIX > mode and we can use the second gsub flavour. I think that an app that conforms to POSIX has at least some chance of working in a multi-platform world. How much work would it be to ensure that we use POSIX regexes? > b) change all layout files to use \\ in LabelString (the parser will > handle that) so that we do not have to use this gsub. I don't think that we should do this. Keeping TeX syntax unchanged will reduce mistakes. -- Angus
