From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Ampersand in Metapost
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:45:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100514134534.7be48060@vorbis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BED299F.1070704@wxs.nl>
On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 14-5-2010 12:06, Marco wrote:
> > for i=0 downto -3:
> > ran;
> > label(\sometxt{\bold{Test}}, (7cm,-4cm))
> > rotatedaround ((7cm,-4cm),i*20)
> > withcolor transparent("normal", .2, (r,g,b));
> > endfor;
>
> because transparent overloads the mechanism that sometxt (textext)
> uses for passing info to tex and back ... maybe some future version
> will handle that (just comment the withcolor)
Ah, I see. I don't need it at the moment as I can use textext with the
code you provided.
Thanks for your explanation. I hope I'm not completely mistaken if I
conclude, that there are some advantages when using \sometxt in MkII,
but in MkIV both variants are basically the same.
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 19:18 Marco
2010-05-13 20:58 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 21:40 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-13 21:45 ` Marco
2010-05-13 22:37 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-14 1:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-05-14 10:09 ` Marco
2010-05-14 13:32 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 10:06 ` Marco
2010-05-14 10:39 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 10:44 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 11:45 ` Marco [this message]
2010-05-14 12:17 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 15:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-14 19:34 ` Marco
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