From: John Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \math or $ doesn't work.
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:54:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150602115402.57b97df6@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150602114535.151c3f0d@localb.wexfordpress.net>
On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:45:35 -0400
John Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> I want to insert the string 8 1/2 x 11 in my
> text. Here is my test file:
> ----------------------------
> \starttext
> \math{8^1_2} × 11 inch,
> \stoptext
> ----------------------------
> I am using texlive 2014 mkiv.
I also tried this:
-----------------------
\starttext
8 1/2 × 11 inch,
\stoptext
---------------------
The error message is the same:
-------------------------------
system > tex > error on line 2 in
file /usr/local/active/hall/ftp/test.tex: String
contains an invalid utf-8 sequence ...
1 \starttext
2 >> 8 1/2 × 11 inch,
3 \stoptext
4
5
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2015-06-02 15:45 John Culleton
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2015-06-02 16:30 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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