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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
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Subject: Re: Passing text to Metapost functions
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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