This is an old anomaly, and the remedies were once at best tedious and error-prone, but the 'new' BIFs now make things much easier.
The use of DEQUOTE, DCVAL and, to restore the status quo ante, DOUBLE has permitted me to put arbitrary nonsense coded by macro testers into monitory mnotes. Both DCVAL and DOUBLE do nothing gracefully, so that they can be incorporated into a standard sequence for routine use even in situations in which no ampersands or single quotes are present in the values of character set symbols. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
