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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Passing text to Metapost functions
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:44:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AFD7AB.7020607@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8B3296E7-0060-4D06-84AE-C3A5816A4F5E@cox.net>

David Arnold wrote:

> 1. How can I do this in plain metapost?
>
> 2. What would be the "Context Way?"


btex ... etex is parsed as-is and therefore cannot be uses

this is what the macro textext("...") is for, it writes the (expanded) 
string to a file and then applies tex to it between runs

Hans

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-26 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-26  3:34 David Arnold
2005-12-26 11:44 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-12-26 18:04   ` David Arnold
2005-12-26 20:03     ` Willi Egger
2005-12-26 21:17       ` David Arnold
2005-12-27  8:09     ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-27  8:24       ` David Arnold
2005-12-27  8:58         ` Taco Hoekwater

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