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From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Unicode error in embedded metapost
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:18:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00709250318p4a9e278enac517b5487cf3791@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F9064133-8483-4CBE-9594-6148ED7AB009@uni-bonn.de>

On 9/25/07, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Maurí cio wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This small piece of code gives me a wrong
> > result:
> >
> > \startuseMPgraphic{teste}
> > z7 = (5cm,0);
> > label.lrt("Pontão",z7);

Metapost can only handle very basic strings. Don't use Metapost for
writing text.

> > \stopuseMPgraphic
> >
> > I just have to change 'btex Pont\~ao etex'
> > for 'Pontão' and everything goes fine.
> >
> label(\sometxt{Pontão},z7);

Indeed. Using \sometxt{...} is strongly recommended. btex ... etex
behaves strange and consumes a considerable amount of extra time to
compile your document.

Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 21:58 Maurí­cio
2007-09-25  7:19 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-09-25 10:18   ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2007-09-26 16:50     ` Maurí­cio

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