LaTeX and we have at least one occurance of that in the content, so this
script needs to support it as well.
_begin_macro_rx = re.compile(r"[\\]([a-zA-Z]+[*]?) ?({|\s*\n?)")
_comment_rx = re.compile("%+ ?(.*)\n[ \t]*")
_text_rx = re.compile(r"[^]~%\\{}]+")
-_optional_rx = re.compile(r"\s*[[]([^]]*)[]]")
+_optional_rx = re.compile(r"\s*[[]([^]]*)[]]", re.MULTILINE)
# _parameter_rx is this complicated to allow {...} inside a parameter;
# this is useful to match tabular layout specifications like {c|p{24pt}}
_parameter_rx = re.compile("[ \n]*{(([^{}}]|{[^}]*})*)}")