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Thanks Hans, as usual perfect!
Nigel King - CTO Orthogon Systems

On 9 Jan 2004, at 23:47, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 14:01 09/01/2004, Nigel King wrote:
>> For the MetaFun Experts,
>>
>> Section 9.2 of the MetaFun manual gives
>> vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@3e") ;
>>
>> The formating of the numbers is controlled by "@3e". I have been 
>> trying to find the command which control this number formating 
>> without success. Please could somebody point me in the right 
>> direction.
>
> In case of problems:
>
> \forceMPTEXgraphictrue
>
> % or
> %
> % \forceMPTEXcheck{lintext}
> % \forceMPTEXcheck{logtext}
>
> \startMPcode
> draw hlintext.lft(0, 20,  5, 20cm, "@3e") ;
> draw vlogtext.bot(0, 10,  9, 10cm, "@3e") ;
> \stopMPcode
>
> this is needed in order to trigger the context format alternative.
>
> The @3e syntax is a replacement for the %3e one in john hobbies modules
>
> Hans