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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: Passing text to Metapost functions
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:09:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B0F6CB.5070008@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD8D05FF-290C-4E1E-A9CC-2287A90C5727@cox.net>

David Arnold wrote:
> Hans,
> 
> I've tried various things without much success. I cannot seem to  access 
> the contents of xlbl below.
> 
> Is this approach ever going to work?

I can make your example work by passing the argument as
a true metapost string:

   * remove the \MPstring command: draw textext.origin(xlbl);
   * create_axes(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,ux,uy)("x");

But it is out of sync: you always have to call texexec twice
whenever you make changes.

Cheers,
Taco

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-27  8:09 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
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 [this message]
2005-12-27  8:24       ` David Arnold
2005-12-27  8:58         ` Taco Hoekwater

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