From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/58784 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Ampersand in Metapost Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4BEC6806.3010800@wxs.nl> References: <20100513211856.48e15be4@vorbis> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273784347 26020 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2010 20:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marco To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 13 22:59:06 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCfUm-0005jw-Az for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B39C9B49; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:59:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qugaLpUSA5R1; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:59:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E91C9B0D; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:59:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD55C9B03 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CjIc9Swg1Ind for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78006C9B0D for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.195; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.195] (unverified [10.100.1.195]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.3e) with ESMTP id 396-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <20100513211856.48e15be4@vorbis> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:58784 Archived-At: On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem producing an ampersand in metapost. In ConTeXt it works as > expected. Have a look at the following example. > > \starttext > \& % OK > \startMPcode > label(textext("\&"),origin); % produces error > \stopMPcode > \stoptext > > The compile time error message is as follows: > ! Misplaced alignment tab character&. > l.1 \MPLIBsettext{1}{& \letterpercent ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________