[Tikzdevice-bugs] new metapost: few problems

[Cameron Bracken]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Matthieu Stigler
<matthieu.stigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> trying metapost() on various plots, saw problem when some character contain
> %. Interestingly, when character is in ylab, gets totally crazy!!

I would expect the % character to cause particularly weird behavior
since it is the comment character. Try manually replacing % with
{\\%}, using the `sanitizeTexString()` function or the `sanitize`
option.

> See:
>
>
>
> ## fine
> metapost("okay.tex")
> plot(runif(100), main="65")
> dev.off()
>
> ## problem!
> metapost("firstPrb.tex")
> plot(runif(100), main="65%")
> dev.off()
>
> ## otehr problem:
> metapost("Crazy.tex")
> plot(runif(100), main="65", ylab="65%")
> dev.off()
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Mat
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-Cameron