From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52209 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: =?windows-1252?q?loop_textext_and_=5CMPstring=7B=85?= =?windows-1252?q?=7D?= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4A81EB88.7000408@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250028463 15569 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2009 22:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:07:43 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 12 00:07:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MazVI-0001gw-9D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40807C9B8C; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9dyuv7yf9CjC; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822C5C9AE6; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE38C9AE6 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id I385qmLjvusP for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2F0C9AD9 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.107] (unverified [10.100.1.107]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 33050-1840426 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:07:05 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.107 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52209 Archived-At: Andreas Harder wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to achieve the following: > > \setMPtext{1}{ABC} > \setMPtext{2}{DEF} > \setMPtext{3}{GHI} > > \starttext > > \startMPpage[offset=1ex,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] > for i=1 upto 3: > draw textext(\MPstring{i}) shifted(i*cm,i*cm) ; > endfor; > \stopMPpage > > \stoptext > > There is no error but no content either. What's wrong? this won't work as {i} is not expanded at the right moment 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________