escape_latex: Escape LaTeX special characters

In jrnold/textools: Functions for working with LaTeX

Description

Escape special LaTeX special characters in text.

Usage

escape_latex(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
escape_latex(x, url = TRUE, ...)

## Default S3 method:
escape_latex(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tex'
escape_latex(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Character vector
...	Other arguments passed to methods
url	If TRUE, escape URLs by enclosing them in \url macros The \url command is from the hyperref package.

Details

The following characters are escaped as follows:

Orginal	Escaped
{	\{
}	\}
#	\#
$	\$
&	\&
_	\_
%	\%
\	\textbackslash{}
~	\textasciitilde{}
^	\textasciicircum{}
...	\dots
|	\textbar
https://cran.r-project.org	\url{https://cran.r-project.org}

Value

A character vector with all LaTeX special characters escaped.

Examples

escape_latex(paste(c("These characters will be escaped",
                     "{ } # $ & _ % \\ ~ ^ ... | "),
                    collapse = ""))
escape_latex("By default so are URLs like https://cran.r-project.org")

jrnold/textools documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:06 a.m.