[metapost] Umlaute with Metapost

[Taco Hoekwater]

It looks like your LaTeX is the one that is confused, not your
metapost. I cannot help you with that, sorry (I do not use LaTeX
band also I work with tetex under linux, so am unfamiliar with
miktex anyway).

Greetings and good luck, Taco


Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 24 März 2005 10:10 schrieben Sie:
> 
>>Hi Matthias,
>>
>>Whether or not actual ä or ü works depends on your MetaPost & TeX
>>distribution (it works for me in 'plain TeX' mode, using the
>>mpost and tex executables from tetex 3.0).
>>
>>The following should work unless latexmp.mp does really strange
>>things (but it is clumsy):
>>
>>   histbarlabel_left("f\" & ditto & "acher");
>>
> 
> I tried that. The mp File contains now
> histbarlabel_left("f\"& ditto &"acher\"& ditto &"ubergreifenden Bachelor");
> 
> and results in this in the .tmp file:
> latexmp_picture[13]:= btex \textsize f\"acher\"ubergreifenden Bachelor etex ;
> 
> However in the eps file there are only spaces for the Umlaute as before.
> 
> The system is winxp with miktex.
> 
> What kind of information would be necessary to solve  this problem ?
> 
> Matthias