[Haskell-cafe] Making the Haskell 2010 report latex repo

[Christopher Done]

It seems that the hyperindexformat in haskell.ind is generated. If I edit
the file as you wrote and do make clean && make, the file is modified back
to using \".


On 2 July 2014 18:46, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> On 3/07/2014, at 8:14 AM, Christopher Done wrote:
> >> (./haskell.ind (./index-intro.tex)
> >> ! Argument of \OT1\" has an extra }.
> >> <inserted text>
> >>                \par
> >> l.61   \item |hyperindexformat{\"}
> >>                                  , 51, 73, 107, 112
> >> ?
> >
> > Does anyone familiar with the language of LaTeX have any idea what's
> > going on?
>
> The \" command in TeX says "You see the next item?  Put
> a diaeresis over it."  So it is expecting a plain character,
> or possibly a command naming a character.  But } is an "active"
> character with a special meaning.
>
> The most likely explanation here is that \" should
> *really* be \textquotedbl.  Apparently someone thought
> \" in TeX was like \" in a C string, but it never has been.
>
> If you can change that line from
>         \item |hyperindexformat{\"}....
> to      \item |hyperindexformat{\textquotdbl}....
> the problem *might* go away.
>
>
>
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