Re: Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:

> 4 - about ConTeXt and Metapost:
>     What should I put in the  "verbatimtex ... etex" header
>     to be able to use ConTexT in btex..etex instead of LaTex?
>     (I don't want use (for now ) the "inside ConTeXt document" method
>     for the sake of environnement robustness, and for reusability)

normally nothing has to go in there

you can make stand alond graphics with context doing:

\setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPpage

   your mp code

\stopMPpage \stoptext

That gives you a stand alone pdf graphic that you can embed later

> 5 - about metapost:
>     How can I build the string to give to TeX as in
> 
>         string str; str = "x^2"
>         btex \large F = <str> etex
> 
>     or perhaps somthing like :
> 
>         string str;
>         str = "btex \large F = " & str é " etex"
>         eval(str)

no, btex etex is parsed and handles in special ways; this is why metafun 
has the textext macro

Hans

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