[Rivet] Rivet metadata proposal

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Andy,

Andy Buckley, Monday 09 February 2009:
> Here's my proposal:

[...]

Sounds fine to me.
I have one question though:

>  /// @brief Get a full description of the analysis.
>  /// Full textual description of this analysis, what it is useful for,
>  /// what experimental techniques are applied, etc. Should be treated
>  /// as a chunk of LaTeX text, including equations built with amsmath
>  /// operators, and splitting paragraphs with newlines as usual. The
>  /// TeX will be down-rendered to text or HTML as necessary.
>  virtual std::string description() const = 0;

Do you know of any trick to more easily write long (LaTeX) text into a C++ 
string? It's not only having to escape everything, but also the line 
breaks which are quite annoying. If anyone is aware of ways to make that 
easier and more elegant (also to read), than we probably should all use 
them.

Thanks,
Frank