From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22838 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Creutzig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Q: about \externalfile from metafun-p.pdf Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:26:19 +0200 Message-ID: <434169BB.4000008@creutzig.de> References: <20051002172755.GA17649@none.at> <43401ECE.2030309@creutzig.de> <20051002185852.GB19384@none.at> <434044D5.8090109@creutzig.de> <20051003080358.GA3782@none.at> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128360754 24929 80.91.229.2 (3 Oct 2005 17:32:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 03 19:32:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMU58-0006Qd-Bw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:26:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C1D127D0; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21787-03; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C35127C5; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C4A127C5 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21721-03 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bayes.math.uni-paderborn.de (bayes.math.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.116.40]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C77127B3 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bayes.math.uni-paderborn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12883E000087 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bayes.math.uni-paderborn.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bayes [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16806-09 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (p548B3A26.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.139.58.38]) by bayes.math.uni-paderborn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E581E0000B4 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:26:22 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20051003080358.GA3782@none.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by mailscan-system at math.uni-paderborn.de X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22838 Archived-At: Alexander Lazic wrote: >>>\stopreusableMPgraphic{sin} >> >>This {sin} at the end is wrong; it's interpreted as text. >=20 >=20 > This have i understand ;-) > I called it sin, sorry for confusion. The name is unimportant =96 my point is that the \stop... commands don't get arguments. > Thanx. > Have i right understand, if i want to draw a sinuscurve i must use a > for-loop? MetaPost is not really a function plotter. So, yes, you have to use some sort of loop, although there may be some predefined macros hiding th= em. Christopher