From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TeX-MP interaction in mkii and mkiv
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:29:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00810130129y5f8b6e4al3d65843ec048abf1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810101323160.8489@nqv-yncgbc>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Another difference in mkii and mkiv handling of sometxt. If there is a
>>> line break in \sometxt{ ... } then it fails in mkii, but runs in mkiv. For
>>> example,
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \startMPcode
>>>
>>> draw \sometxt{A very
>>> long string} ;
>>>
>>> \stopMPcode
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> I vaguely understand why this is happening, but I do not know if it can be
>>> corrected.
>>
>> in mkii we obey lines because it gives better tracing etc etc given that
>> we use external files; this will work:
>>
>>
>> draw \sometxt{A very %
>> long string} ;
>>
>
> Ah, thanks.
>
>> indeed mkiv is different but let's consider it an improvement; i don't
>> want to waste time on mkii fixes that are not that important
>
> I understand that. We need to document all these differences between mkii
> and mkiv with regards to mp interaction for those who want to write code
> that works in both. Mojca, any plans to update your MyWay?
If you want to do changes, just go ahead (you might be more
competitive to describe them).
Otherwise: I'm not sure what all the differences are.
1.) withcolor doesn't work
2.) \startTeXtexsts cannot be used
3.) the example above fails in mkii
What else?
Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 4:53 Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-02 14:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-02 15:03 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-02 15:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-02 15:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-10 16:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-10 17:05 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-10 17:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-13 8:29 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2008-10-13 13:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
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