Text like “\newline” vs. structure field in panel

Kirby 2 Issues 🐛
1

Hi,

I came to a problem when building my site. I git some pages where I like to show LaTeX code. I use a structured field but entries like \newline (which is a common LaTeX macro don’t get saved properly, i.e. the \n is cut of and interpreted as new line control sequence.

How to reproduce:

  1. download starter kit

  2. add the following field to blueprints/default.php

       test:
     label: Test-Field
     type: structure
     entry: {{text}}
     fields:
       text:
         label: Text
         type: text

  3. go to the panel

  4. edit a default page

  5. add a new entry to the structure field

  6. type in \newline and click “Add”

  7. save the page

Result: The entry is saved as ewline …

I also created an issue on GitHub but since this is quite urgent I hope it’s ok to ask here too …

2

I just tested this in a fresh langkit install and it saves '\newline' to text file (in single quotes)

Edit: I added some more entries, and I get three different results.

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But then again, shouldn’t backslashes be escaped anyway? Having said that, escaping the backslash results in double backslashes in the text file but display in the panel is nevertheless weird …

3

Different results are even more strange … I guess it has something to do with \n being a control sequence. But I don’t know why it is not escaped. When I add braces to the entry – \newcommand\x{X} for instance – the entry is saved with single quotes and everything works …

Hope that @bastianallgeier or someone else has a solution for that :slight_smile: