From: eythanweg@gmail.com (Eythan Weg)
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Value of Metapost variable as a label
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:57:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mybbfzsq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903222223410.1772@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> This however fails:
>> k:=2;
>> label.bot(textext("$1\over" & decimal k & "$"), (10,0)) ;
>
> Try with \frac instead.
Or prevent expansion of \over
label.bot(textext("$1\noexpand\over" & decimal k & "$"), (10,0)) ;
Why \atop or \choose do not need \noexpand?
What is special about \over?
Aditya
Thanks,
Eythan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 20:39 Curiouslearn
2009-03-21 22:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-21 22:40 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-22 2:53 ` Eythan Weg
2009-03-23 0:36 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-03-23 2:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-24 1:57 ` Eythan Weg [this message]
2009-03-24 4:16 ` Aditya Mahajan
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