Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problem with stripping performed by the LaTex generator?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 04:25:45PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> Can you show the template which exhibits the behaviour you
> are describing ?
> 
> The snippet is
> 
> \lhead{\scriptsize
> VGH Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic\\
> Supplemental progress notes}
> \chead{ }
> \rhead{\raggedleft \scriptsize
> $<lastname::::>$, $<title::::>$ $<firstname::::>$\\
> born $<date_of_birth::%d %b %Y::>$ \\
> MRN: $<external_id::MRN Medical Record Number//BC.CA_VCHA::>$
> }
> 
> but the interesting thing is that the errant PDF output affects only about 
> half of the six patients against whose records I have run the report.
> 
> The weird thing is that even in the case of the errant output, the 
> backslashes had been preserved in the run2.tex files and I can see no 
> difference in the appearance of the code as compared, say, to this extract 
> from the run2.tex of Spock (of whose rank I am unsure, hence the question 
> mark, and he lacks an MRN) :
> 
> \pagestyle{fancy}
> \fancyhf{} % clear defaults / previous style definitions
> \lhead{\scriptsize
> VGH Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic\\
> Supplemental progress notes}
> \chead{ }
> \rhead{\raggedleft \scriptsize
> Spock, Capt. ?\\
> born 25 Mar 1931 \\
> MRN:
> }
> 
> which yields the attached screenshot in the header. In the case of the 
> "problem" cases, the left header consists of the two strings run together on 
> a single line, and the same is true in the right header, with respect to its 
> three elements.

I understand the description of what you are seeing.

However, to be able to test usefully and perhaps find a
problem I'll have to see the template.

Karsten
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