Re: missing backslash before Program Files in http://www.lilypond.org/windows.html

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:08:02AM +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> > Well, the @example immediately above the "Program files" has a \
> > in the .itexi file, and proudly displays a \ in the output.  Why
> > does this work inside @example but not @code?  Is there any way we
> > can get @code to act like @example ?
> 
> I suspect the answer is here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Invoking-Macros.html#Invoking-Macros
> I quote:
> "Other characters that need to be quoted in macro arguments are curly
> braces and backslash. For example
>      @macname {\\\{\}\,}
> "

Hmm.  Does that happen inside @file{} as well?  If so, that's a
pretty silly limitation on filenames.

> Should I replace single \ and @bs{} by \\ in all langage files?

No, don't bother.

> However, I grepped everywhere for /Applications/ and could not find
> where it happens that it is converted to C:\Program Files.

/applications/ has nothing to do with program files.  That's a
MacOS X thing.
 
> Your thoughts on the best way to go? \\, @bs{} or /Applications/? Do
> you confirm you prefer @bs{}?

I already told James that he could push your previous patch.

Cheers,
- Graham