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Tags dock incorrectly stops when encountering a } even if it is not the matching }

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue 10 years ago • 1 comments

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create sections that incorporate a command. Example:
\section{\prefix{a_number} the title }

The expected result in the dock should be:
"\prefix{a_number} the title"

Instead the result is:
"\prefix{a_number"

This is probably caused beceause the opening bracket is matched by the 
first bracket encountered which is not always the bracket that should be 
matched.

I am using TexWorks v0.2.3 on Windows XP.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Apr 2010 at 12:58

GoogleCodeExporter avatar Mar 14 '15 10:03 GoogleCodeExporter

This is a limitation of scanning for "tags" (section headings, etc) using a 
simple regular expression, rather than 
actually parsing the code. (But TW deliberately does not try to really parse 
LaTeX source - that would make it too 
dependent on one particular dialect of TeX, and/or would make the feature too 
complex to configure.)

Original comment by [email protected] on 12 Apr 2010 at 10:22

GoogleCodeExporter avatar Mar 14 '15 10:03 GoogleCodeExporter