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I'm trying to include an image using an absolute path that contains a $-sign, the path looks something like:

\\NETWORKSERVERA\NETWORKDISKB$\FOLDERC\imageD

I've tried encapsulating it in curly brackets, and double quotation marks, but none of this works.

I also tried escaping the dollar sign with \$, this led to the error:

TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]

The dollar sign still switches the text to math mode.

MWE

\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{//NETWORKSERVERA/NETWORKDISKB$/FOLDERC/imageD}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:figure}
    \end{figure}
\end{document}
ROIMaison
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  • Does this solve your problem? – epR8GaYuh Feb 01 '17 at 14:20
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    @dexteritas, I did not try that, is there a specific reason I should escape a dollar sign with an ampersand? – ROIMaison Feb 01 '17 at 14:51
  • @epR8GaYuh, I tried it with the detokenize command, but the dollar sign still activates math mode – ROIMaison Feb 01 '17 at 14:58
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    the $ sign should just work. It would only start math mode if you were typesetting something. Youe "MWE" is not a MWE as it is just a fragment that can not be run – David Carlisle Feb 01 '17 at 15:18
  • $ can be used in the path. Try creating a local directory with a $ sign in it, copy a graphics in it, and include the graphics in your LaTeX file. Do you get an error? – user94293 Feb 01 '17 at 15:19
  • I just tried your MWE on a network path with and I did not have any problems. The only annoying thing is, texstudio formats everything after the $ in mathmode. – bene Feb 01 '17 at 17:40
  • @bene, yeah I came to that conclusion as well, and can't really think of a nice solution to solve. At the moment I'm thinking about adding a phantom image which also has a dollar in the path, but it's not very clean... – ROIMaison Feb 01 '17 at 21:29

1 Answers1

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If I set up a test directory like

mkdir 'NETWORKDISKB$'
cp `kpsewhich example-image.png` NETWORKDISKB$

so a directory called NETWORKDISKB$ containing example-image.png

Then the following test document

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

    \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{NETWORKDISKB$/example-image.png}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:figure}
    \end{figure}

\end{document}

works producing

enter image description here

It doesn't work quite as it should: the $ is being seen by kpathsea and generating a warning in the terminal (not in the log file)

warning: kpathsea: NETWORKDISKB$/example-image.png: Unrecognized variable construct `$/'.

But that seems to be harmless.

The log file shows the normal image inclusion log:

<./NETWORKDISKB$/example-image.png>]
David Carlisle
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    Thank you for your response. I managed to do it for my case as well. I got confused because my editor saw the $ sign as the start of the math environment, and start formatting the colors accordingly. But the compilation did not result in any errors. I tried to fix the formatting by escaping the dollar sign, but then the error that I mentioned in my question arises. Do you know a way to escape the dollar sign whilst avoiding the Tex Capacity error, or should I ask this in a separate question? – ROIMaison Feb 01 '17 at 15:44
  • @ROIMaison that would be an editor specific question, can't help unless the editor is emacs:-) actually the colouring was wrong in emacs as well, but I usually ignore such things – David Carlisle Feb 01 '17 at 16:07