From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/58808 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Ampersand in Metapost Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:45:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20100514134534.7be48060@vorbis> References: <20100513211856.48e15be4@vorbis> <4BEC6806.3010800@wxs.nl> <20100513234554.36d41c14@vorbis> <20100514120621.554d595d@vorbis> <4BED299F.1070704@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273838148 16834 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2010 11:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:55:48 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 14 13:55:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCtUX-0007fE-LE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928B1C9AE3; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id nUE333Ia2ESe; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04446C9AF1; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB18C9AE3 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TLXeQx+IDX7o for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8612FC9AF5 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCtUL-0007Y0-0p for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 202.58.85.36 ([202.58.85.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:33 +0200 Original-Received: from netuse by 202.58.85.36 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.58.85.36 X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:58808 Archived-At: On Fri, 14 May 2010 12:44:47 +0200, Hans Hagen 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________