From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: Ampersand in Metapost
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 23:40:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikl8dtifmbutgqn0iadi1MK2KswY1Zb34Qee697@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEC6806.3010800@wxs.nl>
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 22:58, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
>>
>> 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
Or maybe \letterampersand if you want to get the desired glyph :)
Alternatively you could try to use
label(\sometxt{\&},origin);
Mojca
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 19:18 Marco
2010-05-13 20:58 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 21:40 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2010-05-13 21:45 ` Marco
2010-05-13 22:37 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-14 1:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-05-14 10:09 ` Marco
2010-05-14 13:32 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 10:06 ` Marco
2010-05-14 10:39 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 10:44 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 11:45 ` Marco
2010-05-14 12:17 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 15:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-14 19:34 ` Marco
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