Semicolon in title

ROOT
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Dear Rootsketeers,

I want to use semicolons in my histogram titles - eg.

h->SetTitle(“Title (cut1; cut2; cut3)”);

but of course each semicolon takes you to the next axis title. Is there a hotkey to disable the usual function of the semicolon? (ie. in the same way you would put ‘\’ to get a ‘’ in latex.)

Cheers,
Rob

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There is no way to escape the ‘;’ in the title string. Can’t you use ‘,’ instead ?

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One could implement a escape mechanism. Do you have a proposal, eg
;
{;}

Rene

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In fact if you look at:

root.cern.ch/root/html/TLatex.html#L5

we already have ‘#/’ for ‘/’ . To be consistent we can do '#;"

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I would use ‘,’ except that I often want to write eg.

NJets >= 4; pT(j) > 100,100,50,50GeV; ETmiss > 100GeV

I appreciate this is a bit picky, but I am writing my thesis and want to get it right.

; would be my preferred escape - it matches the latex and c++ form. (This was what I tried as a guess.)

Thanks for the replies,
Rob

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\ is Latex but # is TLatex.

is what we instead of \ in ROOT.

For instance the \eq characater in Latex is #eq in TLatex/ROOT.

I am looking at it right now. That’s not completly trivial to implement.

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Yes, sorry - I didn’t see your previous post before made my second one. ‘#;’ or ‘#sc’ would do nicely.

This isn’t urgent, but if you could implement it at some point that would be great!

8

This is now implement in the CVS head. Thanks to have reported it.

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Thank you!