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
next prev parent 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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