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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