Re: metaobj and luatex 0.42.0

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Matthew Claus wrote:
>> This minimal example works with "texexec example.tex" but fails with 
>> "context
>> example.tex".
>>
>> \startMPinclusions input metaobj; \stopMPinclusions
>>
>> \starttext \startMPpage newBox.a(\sometxt{hello world}); a.c = origin;
>> drawObj(a);
>>
>> \stopMPpage \stoptext
>>
>> Is this expected to work (I realize the 0.42.0 is very new)
> 
> I am not surprised it fails. Most metapost code in mkiv is run at
> least twice for some reason, and so equations tend to fail. You could
> try with
> 
>   \startMPpage
>   newBox.a(\sometxt{hello world});
>   a.c := origin;
>   drawObj(a);
>   \stopMPpage
> 
> 
> but even then it depends on what newBox does internally.

in general one needs to keep in mind that we're in one run, so even in 
the case of 'single runs' things can bleed from one to the other 
graphic; one should set up graphics as independent as possible

Hans


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