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  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) In FTX mode, you have to use a double backslash to be guaranteed that it will show up: ldraw\parts\s. I don't know why the single backslash shows up before the s, but not before the p. --Travis (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
 
  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) It doesn't matter whether there is additional text within a double backlash or not: In FTX The first one is used to show the second one. E.g. \ldraw\par\ts\s would become ldraw\parts\s too... -Rene (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) OK, now that's just plain weird. So you're saying that every odd backslash will show up in an FTX post, no matter where they are, right? I confess that I fail to see the reasoning behind this behavior. It's worth noting that I couldn't find (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) Wow, that's really weird. Ya gotta love PML... Steve (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) Hi Travis, sorry, but FTX/Perl isn't _my_ invention ;-) I could imagine it has something to do with Perl (AYMK, LUGNET is based upon Perl). The backslash in combination with a char is a so-called "control character" in Perl and also used to (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Bug fix for disappearing backslash (was: Re: Disappearing backslash?)
 
(...) Hmm, that *is* weird. This isn't actually a PML thing, though, but an FTX thing. The FTX-to-HTML converter runs as a seperate self-contained module; all PML parsing occurs prior to the FTX-to-HTML conversion. The backslash in FTX was intended (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Bug fix for disappearing backslash (was: Re: Disappearing backslash?)
 
(...) I miss my Todd Lehman. Good to see you around buddy! (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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