On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:58:46 +0200, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 9:18, Marco wrote:
> > 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
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