Re: [NTG-context] Ampersand in Metapost

13 May 2010

      On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
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Hi,
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
Doesn't work. I suppose you mean \letterampersand. If I change \& into
\letterampersand I get exactly the same error as \& produces (BTW:
\letterpercent also produces an error, but a different one).
I discovered that the ugly \char`\& works as a workaround (or is this
the final solution?).

Thanks for your help.
Marco