escape metadata

[janrito]

I'm trying to pass a directory to latex as metadata:

Path to Graphics:    ./figs/

But it gets translated into:

\def\pathtographics{.\slash sample2\slash }

I understand this is necessary because / is a reserved character in latex. But, is there any way to escape the meta-datum ( :) ) encoding?

[fletcher]

There isn't.

But this is the sort of thing you would manage by creating a separate file with latex definitions, and then use the latex input metadata key to reference, in the same manner that the sample MMD files pull in latex "snippets" to set up the article, beamer, and memoir formats.

latex input:   somefile

and somefile.tex could contain

\def\pathtographics{./figs/}