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Subject: MetaFun: Typesetting in Metapost (chapter 9 of MetaFun Manual)
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Dear Hans,

I need to create a graphic, where text is placed inside an ellipse. I should
place that in the background for a presentation.....

Now I started to study and try to use MetaFun. It looks like that in the
chapter 9 there is just what I need. - However I did not succed to produce
any of your examples though I copied the code from the manual.

It looks like that there is a problem in the \handletokens macro. When
compiling the code I get an error:

! Argument of \dododohandletokens has an extra }.
<inserted text>
                \par
<to be read again>
                   }
\dododohandletokens ...=\hbox {\bfd \the \MPtoks }
                                                  \par \startMPdrawing \par
...

How to use the command \getMPgraphic? - Between starttext and stoptext?

Willi