From: Raymond LeClair <raymond.leclair@synterein.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Escaping a special character in a MetaPost figure within a ConTeXt document fails
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:56:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <343DA052-8CB9-4ED4-917B-68DC2477D0CA@synterein.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111301033410.13707@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Thanks for the reply!
Found I needed to use \letterbackslash\letterhash for this to work. Does that make sense?
On Nov 30, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Try:
>
> using \letterhash instead of \#
>
> or
>
> \startasciimode
>> \def \FrontMatterTitle {
>> \startreusableMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight}
>> matter_paper_width := 4.25in;
>> matter_paper_height := 6.875in;
>> front_left_margin := 0.388888888889in;
>> top_margin := 0.347222222222in;
>> draw (0, 0)--(matter_paper_width, matter_paper_height)
>> withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor white;
>> picture titleText;
>>
>> %% == HERE IS THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM ==
>>
>> titleText := btex {\vbox{\hsize 2.72916666667in \baselineskip 38.0pt
>> \setupalign[flushleft,hyphenated,verytolerant]
>> \TitleFont THE BEGINNINGS OF #BOOM}} etex;
> %%%%%% NOTE I changed \# to # and % to %%
>> labeloffset := 0bp;
>> label.lrt(titleText, (front_left_margin,
>> matter_paper_height - top_margin));
>> \stopreusableMPgraphic
>> \reuseMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight}
>> }
>
> \stopasciimode
>
> You can also use \framed[width=2.73in, foregroundstyle={\TitleFont\setupinterlinespace[38pt],
> align={flushleft, ....}]{The ....} instead of explicit \vbox.
>
> Aditya
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 15:15 Raymond LeClair
2011-11-30 15:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-12-01 17:56 ` Raymond LeClair [this message]
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