Bug#287309: tetex-bin: example using html \special is a bit off

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 27.12.04 Sanjoy Mahajan (sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Your example:
>> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> has a slight problem because # is a special character for tex/latex.
>> The output of your 'strings' command shows the problem:
>> 
>>    html:<a href="##paradise">
>> 
> I've noticed that, however I didn't know how to fix it.
>
>>   If you want to use a fragment indicator in the URL (the `#' hash mark),
>>   make sure to change its catcode to `letter' first:
>> 
>>   {\catcode`\#=11
>>   \special{html:<a href="http://www.foo.org/bar#foobar"}}
>> 
> Thanks for the hint and it works now!

I didn't read your conversation about catcodes - should there be a
remark in the patch I provided?

> Frank has already forwarded the bug to upstream. Unfortunately I
> can't see his E-mail in the tex-k archive. Hope it came through.

I didn't receive anything, neither a reject nor a "waiting for moderator
approval" or anything.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer