How do I sanitize LaTeX input?

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Published on 2010-04-13T05:17:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 5:23 UTC
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I'd like to take user input (sometimes this will be large paragraphs) and generate a LaTeX document. I'm considering a couple of simple regular expressions that replaces all instances of "\" with "\textbackslash " and all instances of "{" or "}" with "\}" or "\{".

I doubt this is sufficient. What else do I need to do? Note: In case there is a special library made for this, I'm using python.

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