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[Hans van der Meer]

Hi Hans

I am placing metapost figures in the text:

	\placefigure{}{\startMPgraphic
		......
		label.top(textext("\tfx \#3"),z0)
	\stopMPgraphic\loadcurrentMPgraphic{}\placeMPgraphic}

The \# macro disappears and nothing shows up in my figure.
The same with other characters as  \lbrace\rbrace.
How come? Do I misunderstand something?
It would be a pity if some characters could not be typeset in figures.
Thanks for looking into it.

Hans van der Meer

Re: textext

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Hi Hans

Well, I am not Hans, but perhaps I might add a comment:

> I am placing metapost figures in the text:

could you provide a small non-working example (that we can run thru
TeX)?

The following works fine here:

% interface=en output=pdf
\starttext

\def\mycommand#1{%
        \startuseMPgraphic{somegraphic}
        drawdot origin;
        label.top(textext("#1", origin);
        \stopuseMPgraphic
   \useMPgraphic{somegraphic}}

\mycommand{Hello Hans}
\stoptext


Patrick

Re: Re: textext

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:19 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
> > Hi Hans
>
>Well, I am not Hans, but perhaps I might add a comment:
>
> > I am placing metapost figures in the text:
>
>could you provide a small non-working example (that we can run thru
>TeX)?
>
>The following works fine here:
>
>% interface=en output=pdf
>\starttext
>
>\def\mycommand#1{%
>         \startuseMPgraphic{somegraphic}
>         drawdot origin;
>         label.top(textext("#1", origin);
>         \stopuseMPgraphic
>    \useMPgraphic{somegraphic}}
>
>\mycommand{Hello Hans}
>\stoptext

\setMPtext{some tag}{some text}

\startMPcode draw textext(\MPstring{some tag}) ; \stopMPcode

For Patrick who reads sources:

%D To be documented:
%D
%D \starttyping
%D \setMPtext{identifier}{text}
%D
%D \MPtext  {identifier}
%D \MPstring{identifier}
%D \MPbetex {identifier}
%D \stoptyping

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