From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31109 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MPenvironment ignored for btex..etex (or should I use sometxt)? Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:22 +0200 Message-ID: <451CCC06.6060401@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159515171 21915 80.91.229.2 (29 Sep 2006 07:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 29 09:32:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GTCrP-0004aS-Me for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4961B1FFAF; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26958-01-3; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AED1FFB4; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031101FFB4 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26958-01-2 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AB3281FFAF for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 10591 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:32:19 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31109 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Oh, wait, if metapost is fine with the file but ConTeXt isn't, then the > error above must be from ConTeXt parsing the metapost code and seeing > the \2, then complaining. So am I supposed to use the global option to > \startMPenvironment? If it's needed in this case, I think it would be > needed in every case (ConTeXt would see all the metapost uses of the > definition). Or is btex deprecated and I should use \sometxt (except in > loops)? Or am I just confused?! > indeed commands in an mp environment are not expanded when writing an mp graphic to file; it's always a bit of a trade of (i didn't expect users to cook up all kind of commands in environments; when i have to do that, inormally put them in an environment and load that in the mp graphic (since one load tex files there) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------