[gl2ps] unmatched parenthesis in text strings

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 11 Jun 2015, at 16:30, Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How about escaping all parenthesis (and while at it, all other ps/pdf "special" characters)? We can than prevent a bobby tables incident.
> 

I think this would indeed be the best approach: escaping all the special characters automatically depending on the format. Not sure how general/complete one can be though, depending on the encoding.

This is clearly a recurring issue, not just in Octave. See e.g. http://geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2015/009838.html

Christophe

> Shai
> 
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:46 PM Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo.diribarne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot the reference to the original bug in Octave tracker:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45301
> 
> Pantxo
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