From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
Subject: Re: Using \startuseMPgraphic inside a textext() in METAPOST?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:24:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05d10f2c-bc1e-ccdb-b02b-561ad9d9ea0c@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2BC0A415-458A-4DC7-9949-0D26257F636C@rna.nl>
On 4/27/2020 10:47 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I am in METAPOST which is inside TeX and I’d like (in METAPOST, not in
> TeX) to let a string follow a path. Adapting from the MetaFun manual
> around page 250, I tried this:
>
> \starttext
>
> \startMPpage[instance=doublefun]
> pic p;
> p := textext("\startuseMPgraphic[instance=doublefun]{followtokens}path
> RotPath ; RotPath := fullcircle ;\stopuseMPgraphic\followtokens{I am
> creating a line of text here}");
> draw pic;
> \stopMPpage
>
> \stoptext
>
> But that does not work. Is there a way I can from within my METAPOST
> code get string (TeX code) to follow a path I have? In my case, I
> cannot escape outside the \startMPpage- -\stopMPpage environment, as the
> actual path is constructed there and the text following the path should
> be on that page.
search for lmt_followtext in the luametafun manual
Hans
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