From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9886 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: vanishing leftarrow Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:07:03 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021120140036.00ae3868@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037798029 25291 80.91.224.249 (20 Nov 2002 13:13:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from [131.211.172.13] (helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18EUfs-0006Zn-00 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:13:48 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8F110AE8; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:15:43 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC7910AE7 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:14:34 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAKE9xTL018219 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:00 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAKDEVgg029756 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:14:31 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9886 At 12:41 PM 11/20/2002 +0100, you wrote: >I did encounter something strange with leftarrow in metapost math: > >In normal text: >All three arrows appear with $l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$. > >In metapost: >The leftarrow does not appear, the others do in: > \placefigure{}{\startMPgraphic > u = 180mm; v = 40mm; > label.bot(textext("$l\leftarrow r\rightarrow > lr\leftrightarrow$"),(u/2,v)); > \stopMPgraphic\loadcurrentMPgraphic{}\placeMPgraphic} > >How is that possible and how can it be repaired? in the ps file we get: (l) cmmi12 11.95517 fshow 226.60309 102.08342 moveto ( ) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow 241.87918 102.08342 moveto (r) cmmi12 11.95517 fshow here, the space char is the arrow; the mp to pdf converter makes this into a special kind of space; you may try: \def\MPspacechar{\char32\relax} Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------