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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Escaping a special character in a MetaPost figure within a ConTeXt document fails
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:37:26 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111301033410.13707@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F3AF085-2C20-4920-AF36-D92CACED2226@synterein.com>

Try:

using \letterhash instead of \#

or

\startasciimode
> \def \FrontMatterTitle {
>  \startreusableMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight}
>    matter_paper_width := 4.25in;
>    matter_paper_height := 6.875in;
>    front_left_margin := 0.388888888889in;
>    top_margin := 0.347222222222in;
>    draw (0, 0)--(matter_paper_width, matter_paper_height)
>      withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor white;
>    picture titleText;
>
>    %% == HERE IS THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM ==
>
>    titleText := btex {\vbox{\hsize 2.72916666667in \baselineskip 38.0pt
>                                \setupalign[flushleft,hyphenated,verytolerant]
>                                \TitleFont THE BEGINNINGS OF #BOOM}} etex;
%%%%%% NOTE I changed \# to # and % to %%
>    labeloffset := 0bp;
>    label.lrt(titleText, (front_left_margin,
>                          matter_paper_height - top_margin));
>  \stopreusableMPgraphic
>  \reuseMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight}
> }

\stopasciimode

You can also use \framed[width=2.73in, foregroundstyle={\TitleFont\setupinterlinespace[38pt],
align={flushleft, ....}]{The ....} instead of explicit \vbox.

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 15:15 Raymond LeClair
2011-11-30 15:37 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2011-12-01 17:56   ` Raymond LeClair

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