Re: Labeling of axes

[Christopher Creutzig <ccr@mupad.de>]

Hans Hagen wrote:

> beginfig(1) ;
> 
>   numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ;
> 
>   for i=-10 upto 10 :
>     if not (i=0) :
>       draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ;
>     fi ;
>   endfor;
> 
> endfig ;
> 
> end
> 
> given that you have configured texexec well: 
> 
>   texexec --mptex thisfile.mp
>   mptopdf thisfile.1 

  With ConTeXt 2003.8.15, I get (\000) in thisfile.1, which mptopdf does
not handle:

! Undefined control sequence.
l.14 (\0
         00) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow

These seem to be the minus signs.

Regards,
	Christopher Creutzig