Showing Quotation marks as Inch sign "

[kellyd]

Our new printer paper size is Ledger (11 x 17''), the problem is using inch marks in our plot lisp program, I found this routine but it returns a \" as a result.

(setq qumark "\042")

this is suppose to return the octal 042 which is the quotation mark.

We just need to insert that inch mark after the 17 for the program to work.

any ideas would be appreciated.

[RobertB]

(setq me "Ledger (11 x 17\")")

[kellyd]

when i use this i get "Ledger (11 x 17\")" as a result, how do we get rid of the backslash?

[irneb]

It depends on what you use to show the string on the command line / save it to a file. E.g. if you use prin1 / print it's going to show the whole thing including the \. But if you use princ it's not. The print / prin1 is mostly used when saving to a file so the file can later be used with read to get an exact duplicate of what the string was previously. From what you show, you probably used the print function. Try changing it to princ. You may have to add a (princ "\n") to have the same effect as print, by doing a new-line before the string.

Also note there's vl-princ-to-string and vl-prin1-to-string which does nearly the same thing, except it saves this value to a string variable instead of printing on the command line / saving to a file.

[alanjt]

This may also be of use:

eg. (chr 34) -> "\""

[d_m_hopper]

this code creates MTEXT that displays like this

12" x 3"
TRENCH DUCT
WITH MINIMUM 2 DIVIDERS

(setq dctxt1 "12\" x 3\"\\PTRENCH DUCT\\PWITH MINIMUM 2\ DIVIDERS")

\\P creates text on next line...maybe this helps you