[PD] way round commas,;?

[oliver]

> timon botez wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Im  using qlist and gem to do some visual typographic stuff.  
>> Encountering problems with textfiles containing [,]commas, [;] 
>> semicolon, [\]backslash.  Whats the best way of overcoming this problem?
>>
> 

another not so beautiful but working method (on XP):

define an environment variable in your startup script.
just type a line like this:

set BSL=\

you can now call this environment variable by typing %BSL% in any pd-message, 
where internally it will be replaced by good old \.

hope this helps

oliver