From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: loop textext and \MPstring{…}
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:23:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A83169D.7010602@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908120923300.18834@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Andreas Harder wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 12.08.2009 um 07:40 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, 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?
>>>
>>> Another way to do this is to use
>>>
>>> \TeXtext{1}{ABC} etc.
>>>
>>> and then call
>>>
>>> draw sometxt(i)
>>>
>>> For Sec 4.5 of Mojca's my way on sometxt
>>> http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/sometxt.pdf
>>
>> Thank you for the tip, I tried it, but sometext seems deprecated in
>> mkiv ("[do we need TeXtexts in MkIV]").
>
> I thought that you were using MKII.
>
>> I've different buffers named 1–12 and would like to pipe them to
>> Metapost. I thought I could use a textext(\getbuffer[i])-construct, it
>> failed. So I tried it with \setMPtext{}{} …
>>
>> What is the approach to achieve this?
>
> Well, if nothing else works, you can always cheat.
>
> \startluacode
> userdata = userdata or {}
> userdata.labels = {
> [1] = "ABC" ,
> [2] = "DEF" ,
> [3] = "GHI" }
>
> function userdata.shift(i)
> return "(" .. i .. "cm ," .. i .. "cm )"
> end
>
> function userdata.draw(i)
> return "draw btex " .. userdata.labels[i] .. " etex shifted "..
> userdata.shift(i) .. ";"
> end
>
> \stopluacode
>
> \starttext
>
> \startluacode
> context.startMPpage({offset = "1ex", width = [[\paperwidth]], height =
> [[\paperheight]]})
> for i = 1,3 do
> context(userdata.draw(i))
> end
> context.stopMPpage()
> \stopluacode
>
> \stoptext
a nice example for the wiki
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 14:08 Andreas Harder
2009-08-11 22:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-12 5:40 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-08-12 10:51 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 13:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-08-12 14:53 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-13 3:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-08-13 16:41 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 19:23 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-08-12 18:34 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-12 21:22 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-13 16:50 ` Andreas Harder
2009-08-12 21:27 ` Andreas Harder
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