supp-pdf.tex and Metapost strings starting with an umlaut

supp-pdf.tex and Metapost strings starting with an umlaut

[Andreas Fieger]

Hello,

I'm using Metapost to draw charts. Part of these are
strings that are constructed with
draw "some text" infont defaultfont ...;

A string like "Äußeres Erscheinungsbild" will result in
   (\304u\337eres Erscheinungsbild) ma1r8r 11.45699 fshow
in the file produced by Metapost.

As the string starts with an octal char, when processing
the file with LaTeX (the graphics package includes
supp-pdf.tex in pdftex.def) I get a complaint that:

"Argument of \octalMPcharacter has an extra }."

If the file produced by Metapost is changed to
   (x\304u\337eres Erscheinungsbild) ma1r8r 11.45699 fshow
   %^ an extra first character added
the problem is gone.

Defined in supp-pdf.tex we have:

\def\octalMPcharacter#1#2#3%
  {\char'#1#2#3\relax}

*  which seems only to be used in \setMPspecials

*  which in turn is used in \doprocessMPtoPDFfile#1#2#3

*  which again is where my understanding of the code stops.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Andreas

--
Dr. Andreas Fieger
ServiceBarometer AG
Tel +49.89.89666917

RE: supp-pdf.tex and Metapost strings starting with an umlaut

[Andreas Fieger]

Hello all,

works just perfect.

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

--
Dr. Andreas Fieger
ServiceBarometer AG
Tel +49.89.89666917

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl [mailto:owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl]On
> Behalf Of Hans Hagen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:46 PM
> To: Andreas Fieger
> Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Subject: Re: supp-pdf.tex and Metapost strings starting with an umlaut
>
>
> At 05:10 PM 11/20/2001 +0100, Andreas Fieger wrote:
>
> >*  which again is where my understanding of the code stops.
>
> ok, i see the problem (atcually a double one since when it would go all
> right in the edef, it would fail at the \fi.
>
> I'll send you a new version (hoping that it runs at your site).
>
> Hans
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Re: supp-pdf.tex and Metapost strings starting with an umlaut

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:10 PM 11/20/2001 +0100, Andreas Fieger wrote:

>*  which again is where my understanding of the code stops.

ok, i see the problem (atcually a double one since when it would go all 
right in the edef, it would fail at the \fi.

I'll send you a new version (hoping that it runs at your site).

Hans
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