Re: MetaPost with etex/btex

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

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Hi David,

The use of the different possibilities of including metapost graphics in 
ConTeXt are described in the METAFUN-manual on pages  9,  81-82, 115

For your refernce I attach a small demo file using your code ...

Kind regards Willi



David Munger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The following code results in no label output:
>
> \starttext
> \startMPcode
>  label.top(btex Some label etex, (1cm,1cm)) ;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
>
> I'm using ConTeXt 2003.12.12.
>
>
> By the way, why don't \startMPgraphic and \stopMPgraphic do anything?
>


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\setupoutput[pdftex]
\starttext

\section{Including the MPcode in the placefigure mechanism}

\placefigure
    [here]
    []
    {the label}
    {\startMPcode
         label.top(btex Some label 1 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ;
    \stopMPcode}

\section{startMPgraphic -- placeMPgraphic}

\startMPgraphic
    label.top(btex Some label 2 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ;
\stopMPgraphic

\loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=15cm}
\placeMPgraphic

\section{startuseMPgraphic -- useMPgraphic}

\startuseMPgraphic{Label2}
    label.top(btex Some label 3 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\useMPgraphic{Label2}

\section{startreusableMPgrpahic -- reuseMPgraphic}

\startreusableMPgraphic{Label3}
    label.top(btex Some label 4 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ;
\stopreusableMPgraphic

\reuseMPgraphic{Label3}

\stoptext