An & char in title metadata gets displayed as &

[naiquevin]

Example: \title "Asc & Desc" results in Asc & Desc at the beginning of the score.

Not sure if it's the expected behaviour so I thought I'll start a discussion instead of creating an issue. If it's expected, is there a workaround?

[Danielku15]

Please create an issue in such cases providing all details like version used, steps to reproduce etc. It's fine to create an issue if you have the feeling something is not as per your expectation. In "worst case" I close it as "works as intended" providing details why 😉 But with a discussion like this we make rather the typical asking loop how to reproduce etc. 😅

How are you passing this alphaTex in? If you use the feature where we take alphaTex from the rendered DOM it is the browser translating this to a HTML entity.

<div id="alphaTab">\title "Asc & Desc"</div>

We currently use the innerHTML as input which would explain the HTML entity. If that's your problem case, I'd have to dig deeper why we opted for innerHTML instead of innerText. As workaround you could pass in the alphaTex via tex function.

[naiquevin]

Thanks! I should have mentioned version etc. 🤦 Yes, I am adding the alphaTex to DOM so it's being set through innerHTML. I can see the problem with that. Will try setting it through the tex function.

It's fine to create an issue if you have the feeling something is not as per your expectation. In "worst case" I close it as "works as intended" providing details why 😉 But with a discussion like this we make rather the typical asking loop how to reproduce etc.

Noted.

[naiquevin]

It works if the alphaTex is specified using the tex function. Thanks.

[Danielku15]

Great to hear things work for you. I added #2330 to investigate further to generally change things.