From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Nov 26 19:20:48 1996
Subject: LaTeX output
From: Heber Farnsworth <heberf at u dot washington dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:19:59 -0800 (PST)

Hi all,
	In my work I do a lot of statistical analysis and present them in
tables in my papers.  I am trying to write a function which creates a
LaTeX file from a matrix.  It seems to work fine except that I can't find
a way to get Octave to print a \ character as is \begin{tabular} or
\end{tabular}  (this will only make sense to LaTeX users).  The first
gives me egin{tabular} and the second gives the warning

warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\e' -- converting to `e'

so I get end{tabular} rather than \end{tabular}.  Is there an output
conversion that applies to this case?  I know there is one for the symbol
%.  For the other symbols like & no conversion is necessary but Octave
attaches importance to the symbol \.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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