From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Nov 27 04:51:04 1996
Subject: Re: LaTeX output
From: Andreas Kratzert <kzt at LTE dot E-TECHNIK dot uni-erlangen dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:50:44 MEZ


Heber Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> 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

You have to double the \ character:
    printf ("\\begin  \\end");

Andreas

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Andreas Kratzert
Universitaet Erlangen, Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Elektronik
email: kzt at lte dot e-technik dot uni-erlangen dot de