Re: Some issues

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 17 Dec 2003, Chris Sperandio wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:29, Jon A. Solworth wrote:
>> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:06, Lars Clausen wrote:
>>>
>>> As for XFig, if you send me a diagram that is improperly exported, I
>>> shall certainly take a look, it's one of my darlings:)
>>>
>>
>> Lars,
>>
>> Here it is.  If it gets mangled, let me know.
>>
>> Jon
>
> I'm working on the color text metapost patch.  
>
> Jon, as far as the text in your messages go, what are your intentions
> for strings with underscores and braces?  It seems that there was a
> routine to escape these in the pstricks filter, but it has been
> disabled.  I agree with the comment there that TeX users will do what
> they intend.  So are these to be typeset as math or should they be as \_
> and \{ \}?  Unfortunately, it seems that even \{ \} won't do it.  I had
> to specifically set these to $\{$ $\}$.
>
> At any rate, here is the patch and two new versions of your dia file I
> test it against.

Thanks, I have applied the patch.  If you can figure out the font thing,
that'd be great.

-Lars

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