From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15924 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost variable problem Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:51:19 +0200 Organization: Elvenkind Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040803155119.28bf6ca2.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <410F86FE.2020105@econ.muni.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091533883 31855 80.91.224.253 (3 Aug 2004 11:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 03 13:51:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Brxp3-0002KA-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:51:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39241127EE; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25972-05; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E78127E7; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C00127E7 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25879-06 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from amsfep20-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.18]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1890127E6 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.240.169]) by amsfep20-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with SMTP id <20040803115106.ZLUY8597.amsfep20-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net> for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:51:06 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <410F86FE.2020105@econ.muni.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15924 On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:37:18 +0000 Michal Kvasnicka wrote: > Good afternoon. > > I am sorry that I bother you with this offtopic but I don't know where > else I can ask. There is a mailing list for metafont (and metapost). To subscribe, e-mail: To: listserv@ens.fr Subject: subscribe metafont Michal Kvasnicka > Is there some simple way to do it, or have I to copy it manually like this: > string b.type; b.type:=a.type; > ... direct assignment will definately not work. Some sort of automation based on the suffix names may be possible (using forsuffixes perhaps) but writing a dedicated macro is probably easiest. Greetings, Taco