From: Nikolai Weibull <context-list@pcppopper.org>
Subject: Re: btex ... etex in .mp
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:32:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827103231.GB2604@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040827093200.7545bd81@glenlivet.elvenkind.com>
* Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> [Aug 27, 2004 11:28]:
> > I remember reading somewhere that you can't use btex ... etex in
> > "input" .mp files, as there is no possibility for them to be
> > processed at that time.
> That is somewhat incorrect information. You can not use btex ... etex
> in a normal way in places where expansion is prohibited (i.e.
> definitions), but whether or not this is inside an inputted file is
> irrelevant.
Ah, yes, that's what I read. Sorry for misunderstanding.
> If you need run-time TeX labels, you can use the textext() macro from
> metafun, or John Hobby's TEX() macro (available after "input tex;")
Hm, I tried textext(). Can it be used in vardef's? I get
! Isolated expression.
<to be read again>
;
endfig->scantokens.extra_endfig;
shipit;endgroup
l.217 endfig
;
?
from some of my pictures. I can't make sense of it. Anyway, the
affected pictures aren't coming out right. Am I doing something
terribly wronge here?
I'm using trees.mp and have a couple of
def_nonterminal(CONS, textext("$\mathstrut\circ$"));
type lines I want to reuse placed in a file i "input". trees.mp can be
found at
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dchiang/software/trees.mp
Thanks,
nikolai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 20:07 Nikolai Weibull
2004-08-27 7:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2004-08-27 10:32 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2004-08-27 13:36 ` Taco Hoekwater
2004-08-27 16:48 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-08-27 18:05 ` Taco Hoekwater
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